The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-09-22

About the year 1853, the Mccullough
Iron Co. commenced the manufacture of
galvanized iron being the first to introduce
this business in the L nited States. They
sent to Europe for man skilled in this
branch of industry, and for a time had
exclusive control of it in this market
They had previously obtained a knowledge
of the process by their own ingenuity and
study. This branch of the business is con-
Quoted at the American Galvanizing Works,
located in Philadelphia, at Washington
avenue and Sixteenth street, the Company
owning the square between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets and Washington ave-
nue. and Ellsworth street.
After the Company commenced the
manufacture of galvanized iron, they found
it necessary to erect forge with six fires,
and to use two steam hammers, for the
manufacture of charcoal iron, it being
more suitable for galvanizing purposes
than that made with stone coal. They
now have two steam hammers and eighteen
forge fires at their works at North East.
These steam hammers are wonderful pieces
of mechanism and are great curiosity to
those who are not familiar with them.
They are capable of striking with force
of from one pound to two and a half TONS
The present capacity of all the mills of
this Company in this county, when run on
full time, is about four Thousand tons of
sheet iron per annum, while their FORCES
have the capacity of about five thousand
tons of bl Doms per annum. When all their
works are run on full time they employ di-
rectly and indirectly about three hundred
and fifty men, and have about four thou
sand acres of land in Cecil county, from
which they obtain part of the charcoal
they use, but obtain annually from other
sources, when business is brisk, many thou
sand bushels.
This Company also owns the Minquas
Rolling Mill in Wilmington, Del e, and Mr..
Mccullough and Mr.. Mcdaniel are inter,
ested in the Diamond State Rolling Mill
and the Philadelphia Architectural Iron
Works
the Company have been in it's service for
number of years, and the utmost good feel
ing and friendship exists between them and
their employers. Both the employers and
the employees seem to recognize the fact
that each have rights that the other should
respect and that their interests are mutual.
In connection with the North East Works,
this notice of them would be incomplete
without some reference to Mr.. VIM. Scot.
ten, the local manager, who has served the
original firm of Mccullough & Co. and the |
Mccullough Iron Co. well and faithfully
for the long period of thirty years. He |
came to North East when comparatively a |
young man and has grown gray in their |
whitened by the frosts of age, he bids fair |
to live many years longer and to be as use
full to the Company in the future as he has |
been in the past.
In concluding this cursory sketch of Mr.. |
Mccullough and the industrial enterprises |
to the success of which his industry has SO
contributed, it remains only to be added !
that, during his residence in this county,
his fellow citizens have more than once
indicated their appreciation of his charac-
ter by selecting him for positions of public .
trust. In politics, an outspoken and I'M
UniouiSt, he left nothing
undone that was in his power to accom-
plish in behalf of the Government, and
freely lent it three of his sons to aid in the
suppression of the rebellion. In 1855 he
was elected County Commissioner and
again in 1859. During the troublous times
of the war he was elected to the State Leg.
islature, served as delegate in the regu-
lar session of 1865 and again in the special
session of 1866, about which time he moved
his family from the county and made his
residence permanently in Wilmington, Del.
He has been "A consistent and devoted men,
Der of the NJ. +. Church from his early
manhood to the present time, and has con-
tributed largely and generously of his means
for the erection of churches and the diffu
sion and maintenance of the faith which
he processes. He has always been an &C
tive friend of temperance reform, contrbut-
ing freely both money and influence in its
behalf and using every laudable means in
his power to induce the employees OF the
Company to refrain from the use of intoxi-
eating drinks. In this important and press
ing work he has been warmly seconded by
the members of the Company, Mr.. McDan-
iel and Mr.. Scotch being active and con-
sistent advocates of total abstinence. AS
years have accumulated he has lessened but
little his active attention to the daily de-
mands of his extended business although
amply rewarded in worldly goods for the
industry and integrity that have ever char
acterized him.
On January end, 1884, he was married
to most estimable lady, Miss Elizabeth
Tull, of this county, a union which has
been blessed with uine sons and one daugh-
ter. OF his sons, three-George, Jethro
and John-have served their country in the
army, two of whom, with Enoch, the old
est son now living, manage successfully the
mills at Rowlandsvile.
The life of Jethro J. Mccullough forci-
bly, incucates the lessons of sobriety and
integrity, of generosity and truthfulness.
He has practiced daily the habits of tenn
perance that he has urged upon others, and
has consistently illustrated in his own ca
reer the sincerity of his professions. We
can but hope that a ripe old age still awaits
him.
Is Miss Grubby," a Washington cor
respondent says:
see by the papers that Col Nick"