Records, 1889-1971.

Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926

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Annie Oakley (b. Phoebe Ann Mosey, Aug. 13, 1860, Darke County, OH–d. Nov. 3, 1926, Greenville, OH) was a sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. She began shooting as a child to support her siblings and widowed mother. Like around 1875, Oakley won a shooting match against marksman Frank Butler; the two married in 1876. Butler and Oakley joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1885 and toured the United States. She also performed for Queen Victoria, King Umberto I of Italy, President Marie Françoi...

Du Pont, T. Coleman (Thomas Coleman), 1863-1930

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In 1902 the control of the hundred year old Du Pont Company passed into the hands of three younger du Pont cousins, T. Coleman, Pierre S., and Alfred I.T. Coleman du Pont, who became president after the 1902 incorporation, had spent the previous two decades involved in the coal, iron, and street railway industries of Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania. His major investment was in The Johnson Company of Johnstown, Pa., and Lorain, Ohio, to which he introduced modern engineering principles and mana...

Nobel-Dynamite Trust Company, Ltd.

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Trojan Powder Company.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Burnside Laboratory.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Smokeless Powder Dept.

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Walker, George, 1884-1948.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company. Schaghticoke Mills.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Wayne Mills.

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Edge Moor Iron Company

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The Edge Moor Iron Company was incorporated in Delaware in 1869 by Eli Garrett and William Sellers, a noted Philadelphia mechanical engineer. The company engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel bridges at a plant located on the Delaware River north of Wilmington. Among its more important projects were the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge, the second Rockville Bridge over the Susquehanna River, and the Kentucky River Bridge of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. The company...

Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954

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P. S. du Pont was president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1915 to 1919 and chairman of the board from 1919 to 1940. He was also president of General Motors (1920-1923) and chairman (1920-1929), as well as a member of many other major corporate boards. He was also an avid collector of documents on the early history of the Du Pont family and company. From the description of The P. S. du Pont Office Collection, 1749-1939. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 16...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Repauno Works.

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Compañia de Explosivos de Chile, S.A.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Louviers Works.

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Du Pont, Alfred I. (Alfred Irénée), 1864-1935

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Alfred I. du Pont was the eldest son of E. I. du Pont (1829-1877). He joined the family gunpowder firm in 1884, after attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1902 reorganization, he became co-owner and general manager. As a result of a family quarrel, he left the firm in 1916 and eventually built his own banking and real estate empire in Florida. Du Pont was active in Delaware Republican Party politics from 1916 to 1920. From the description of TLS : to Edward A. ...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. High Explosives Operating Dept.

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Neal Turner Explosives, Inc.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Belin Works.

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Buckeye Powder Company.

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Du Pont Company of Canada Limited.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Black Powder Operating Dept.

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Compañia Sud-Americana de Explosivos.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Explosives Manufacturing Dept.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Eastern Laboratory.

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Du Pont, William, 1855-1928

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William du Pont, the youngest son of General Henry du Pont (1812-1889) and Louisa Gerhard du Pont (1816-1900), was born on August 21, 1855 near Wilmington, Del. He attended the Lake Mohegan boarding school (NY) from 1869 to 1872 and spent two semesters at MIT in 1872-1873. In 1878, William du Pont married his cousin May Lammot du Pont (1854-1927). William du Pont worked for the first du Pont dynamite manufacturer, Repauno Chemical Company, as secretary and treasurer (1880-1884) and ...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Brandywine Works.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Carney's Point Works.

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Grasselli Chemical Company

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The Grasselli Chemical Company was established by Eugene Ramiro Grasselli in Cincinnati in 1839. In 1886 it moved its headquarters and major production facilities to Cleveland. During the 19th century the company became a major producer of sulfuric acid, nitric acid, baking soda, chloroform and pharmaceutical chemicals. In the 1850s the company became a major producer of kerosene. In the mid 1870s Grasselli became the Du Pont Company's major supplier of sulfuric acid which was used to make nitro...

General Explosives Company.

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Atlas Powder Company

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The mines of Michigan's Copper Country were generally self-reliant; however, there were at least three things they could not find along the Keweenaw Peninsula - coal, iron and explosives. These items were transported, often at great expense, to Michigan from elsewhere. In an attempt to lower these costs, the controlling interests of the Tamarack and Osceola Mines, and later Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Company invested in the area's first explosives plant at Woodside in 1884. When thi...

Indiana Ordnance Works (U.S.).

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Explosives Dept.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours' Explosives Manufacturing Department was created in May 1917 by merger of the Black Powder Operating Dept. and the High Explosives Operating Dept. From the latter, it inherited its own research laboratory, Eastern Laboratory, at Gibbstown, N.J., established in 1905. The Explosives Manufacturing Dept. was renamed the Explosives Dept. as part of the 1921 reorganization creating autonomous industrial departments. It absorbed the Smokeless Powder Dept. in 1936. By the 1970s t...