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Moxham, Arthur J(ames)
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| Steel manufacturer, born in Neath, S Wales, UK. He went to Louisville, KY (1869) and worked in an iron foundry until 1878. In Alabama, he organized the Birmingham Rolling-Mill Co, which he ran until 1883 when he moved to Johnstown, PA to build iron girder rails with their inventor, Tom L Johnson. Moxham directed the town's rebuilding effort after the infamous flood of 1889. The Johnson Co later moved to Ohio and became the Lorain Steel Co, merging (1899) to form the Illinois Steel Co which became part of US Steel (1901). He also helped found the Dominion Iron & Steel Co in Nova Scotia (1901), was an executive at E I Du Pont de Nemours Powder Co (1902–14), and formed the Aetna Explosives Co (1914–17). |
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