Worth Steel Company.

Sheshbazzar B. Worth was born in Marshallton, Chester County, Pa., in 1807 and worked as a storekeeper and blacksmith at Embreeville. He later formed a partnership with his friend, Hugh E. Steele (1815-1874), to operate the Laurel Iron Works near Mortonville. Between 1847 and 1852, Worth managed the Elk Iron Works in Cecil County, Md., for the Park family. He then reunited with Steele to purchase the Triadelphia Iron Works at Coatesville, Pa., in 1852. It was later renamed the Viaduct Iron Works. In the late 1870s, the enterprise was taken over by Andrew Williams of Plattsburgh, N.Y., who reorganized it as the Coatesville Iron Company, a manufacturer of pipes and plates.

William Penn Worth (1856-1923) and J. Sharpless Worth (1851-1922), the sons of S. B. Worth, built their own plate mills, the Brandywine Rolling Mills, near Coatesville in 1881-1882. They then purchased the Viaduct Works in 1887.

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