Walton, Henry (Composer)

Henry C. Walton was an industrial chemist who worked at Andrew Carnegie's Edgar Thomson Steel Works near Pittsburgh in the 1870s. In 1880 Walton became associated with Emile Geyelin, a Philadelphia engineer who owned lands in the Schuylkill Valley. Geyelin had done considerable work for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. as both a machinist and hydraulic engineer. Walton and Geyelin joined with J.A. Mathieu, a charcoal manufacturer, to form Mathieu Geyelin & Walton, Ltd. The firm was to manufacture lead and calcium acetates.

From the description of Diary, 1875-1880. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122405894