Alan Wood Steel Company

The Alan Wood Steel Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania as the Alan Wood Company on January 23, 1929, and was renamed the Alan Wood Steel Company on February 16, 1929. It represented a reorganization and recapitalization of an earlier firm, the Alan Wood Iron and Steel Company. The firm was a small, family-controlled integrated steel company, producing primarily steel sheets.

The company traced its roots to James Wood (1771-1852), the grandson of an Irish Quaker immigrant. During the early 1800s he had worked at a number of forges in the Philadelphia area, mostly engaged in the manufacture of scythes and other agricultural implements. From 1826 to 1832 he operated the Delaware Iron Works on Red Clay Creek at Wooddale, Del., in partnership with his son Alan (1800-1881) and engaged in the manufacture of shovels.

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