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

He also turned his attention to mechanical
drawing, Il knowledge of which was o
great use to him in his trade. He con
tinued the business of millwrighting fol
nine years, during which he reaped the
benefit of his early training in habits OF
industry and economy, and amassed a com
potency, or what in those days was consid
cred respectable sum for moderate man.
In 1912, Mr.. Mccullough took an inter
est in small rolling mill on Red Clay
Creek, near Stanton, and formed partner
ship with the former proprietors of it,
Messrs. c. p. & J. Marshall. 1t is yet
owned and operated by members of the
Marshall family. 1t was a small mill and
had been partly constructed by Mr.. McCul-
Tough, lie having done the millwright work
of it. Ii contained but one pair of rolls.
The bar iron used at that time was ham
mered and not rolled, as at the present
time, bar rolls not having been introduced
i'll that mill till 1914. The partnership be-
tween Mr.. Mccullough and the Messrs.
Marshall expired by limitation five years
from the time it was formed, and Mr..
Mccullough purchased the North East
Forge property, on his own account, on the
End day of February, 1917, and went there
to live on the 10Th day of March of the
same year. Just before he moved, how
ever, he and some of the other members of
81. TO, r
ed a partnership under the name and style
of Mccullough 4 Co., and which in 1861
was incorporated as the Mccullough Iron
/ Company of Cecil County, under the cor
/ poration laws of the State, and afterwards
reincorporated by an act of the Legislature,
| in February, 1865, as the Mccullough Iron
/ Company.
/ From that time to the present, the history
inseparabie portion of that of the McCul-
Tough Iron Company, the other members of
the firm being, like himself, practical me-
chanics, and who have extended the opera
tons of the company until it has become
one of the most extensive in its line in the
country. Delaplaine Mcdaniel, like his
partner, Mccullough, was poor boy, and
worked on farm until he was sixteen
years of age, when he was apprenticed to
the blacksmithing business, at which he
served five years. He became a superior
workman, and understands the trade in
all its various branches. Having an eye to
/ h,,G hn tod Il
terial he used, and afterwards formed a
partnership with Mr.. E. a. Harvey for the
sale of iron, in Wilmington, Del. Mr..
Harvey had served his time at the trade of
a machinist.
From their previous training and expert
ence, the active members of the firm of
Mccullough Il Go. were we'll qualified to
engage in the manufacture Of iron, and
soon after the formation of the partnership
they removed the old forge, which had
probably been erected hundred years, and
erected a new mill in its place. The new
mill had but two furnaces, one pair of bar
and one pair of sheet rolls, and was very
small affair compared with works of the
Mccullough Iron Co. of to day. The Com
pany had Just got the new mill in success
FIJI operation, when it accidentally caught
fire and was entirely consumed.
Nothing daunted or dscouraged-for the
finn was not composed of men to sue
cumb to a misfortune like thiS-though
it was i'll the middle Of Winter, they, with
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to work to repair their loss, and in less than
SIX weeks they had the mill rebuilt and
running again. The timber used in the
reconstruction of it, was, at the time of
the fire, lying in Christiana creek, at VII
mington, Del. This mill is yet standing
"A monument of the perseverance and energy
of those who erected it. There have been
many Improvements i'll the facilities for the
manufacture of sheet iron since that time
This was long before the invention and
introduction of chilled rolls, which are a
great Improvement upon those used at the
time of which we write. The capacity of
this mill was about four hundred tons of
sheet iron per annum.
As time passed away and business grew
better, and the means of the firm warranted
it, they gradually enlarged and extended
their business facilities, and in 1858 pur
chased the site of the Westamwel Iron
Works. near Elkton, and erected the West
amwell Mill, which, for a time, was sup
piled with bar iron from North East.
In 1856, the firm purchased the "Stony
Chase" tract of land, near North East,
adjoining their other property there, and
the same year erected the Shannon Mill.
The North East creek was originally called
the Shannon. The scenery along it, on the
upper part of the "Stony Chase" is wild
aud romantic. The Shannon Mill is run
by water power, the fall being about thirty
four feet. The machinery in this mill is
very massive. The capacity of the works
of the firm at North East was increased by
the erection of the Shannon Mill, to about
eight hundred tons per annum, or double
what it was before.
In 1857, they purchased the Rowlands.
vile Mill from Mr.. Joseph Roman. Here
the Company met with another misfortune
soon after, flood in the Octoraro washing
away their dam. This loss, however, was
soon repaired, and new mill erected in
place of the old, dilapidated structure, pur-
chased of Mr.. Roman. For several years
after the purchase of the Rowlandsville
Mill, the Company hauled their stock FROM
and manufactured iron to, Port Deposit for
shipment. They have since, however, erect
ed another mill at Rowlandsville, in order
to meet and supply the increased demand
for their iron. These mills are near the
Phila. & Bait. Central railroad, and near
the junction of that road with the Columbia
n Port Deposit road. y track from the
former runs into each of them, thus giving
the Company many advantages for the
prosecution of the business which are I'M
surpassed by any mills in the State. The