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The Shelby Iron Works Collection in the University of Alabama Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

James F. Doster
James F. Doster
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
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Extract

Jonathan Ware, an ironmaster from Lynn, Massachusetts, settled in central Alabama in 1825 and was for some years active in the iron business. In the 1840's his son, Horace Ware, established the Shelby Iron Company and with the financial help of a friendly planter erected a blast furnace at the village of Shelby, in Shelby County. The furnace was put in blast late in the decade and operated for a number of years without benefit of rail transportation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 1952 , pp. 214 - 217
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1952

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References

1 Several students have done research in the Shelby Iron Company's records. Completed works include Vandiver, Frank E., “The Shelby Iron Company in the Civil War: A Study of a Confederate Industry,” in Alabama Review, vol. i (1948), pp. 12–26, 111–127, 203–217Google Scholar; Jackson, Joyce, “History of the Shelby Iron Company, 1862–1868,” unpublished master's thesis, University of Alabama, 1948Google Scholar; and Cauley, Woodham Wendell, “A Study of the Accounting Records of the Shelby Iron Company,” unpublished master's thesis, University of Alabama, 1949.Google Scholar