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Morris Burke Belknap (June 25, 1780 -July 26, 1877) was an early iron foundry owner and American industrialist [1] and "one of the pioneers in development of the iron industry west of the Allegheny Mountains." His son, W. B. Belknap, was founder of the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, having learned about the business from his father.
Belknap was born in South Brimfield, Massachusetts on June 25, 1780, the only son of William Belknap. [2]
Belknap moved in 1807 to a colony in Marietta, Ohio where he started an iron industry. In 1810 or 1811 he moved back East to Worcester, Massachusetts. [3] In 1816 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he helped to build some of the first rolling mills and iron casting and iron forging companies. He traveled on horseback and by river boats, exploring the ore fields of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. [4] and subsequently established iron furnaces in Stewart County, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee. [5]
In 1824 Belknap married Phoebe Locke Thompson (1788-1873).[ citation needed ] W. B. Belknap, the oldest of Morris and Phoebe's six children, by following his father's chosen industrial manufacturing and retail career became the founder of Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company. [6] [7] in Louisville, Kentucky.
Phoebe Belknap died February 5, 1873, in DeWitt, Arkansas, and Morris died at Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky on July 26, 1877. [8] Kentucky historian E. Polk Johnson observed that Morris Burke Belknap's name "merits special prominence on the roster of those through whose constructive and initiative abilities encompassed the development of the great iron industry of the United States." [9]
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Morris Burke Belknap, also known as Colonel Morris Burke Belknap, was an American businessman from Louisville, Kentucky, and the Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky in 1903. After earning a degree from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, he worked at his father's hardware company. Later, he co-founded an agricultural implement company. In 1883, he married Lily Buckner, with whom he fathered four children. Following the death of his father, Belknap became vice-president of his hardware company, a position which he held for the rest of his life. Lily Buckner Belknap died in 1893, and he married Marion S. Dumont in 1900.
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W. B. Belknap, also known as William Burke Belknap (the elder) (1811–1889), not to be confused with his grandson William Burke Belknap (the younger) (1885–1965) or great-grandson William Burke Belknap Jr. (1893–1952), was the founder of W .B. Belknap and Company, an early iron and nail business at Third and Main Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, which evolved by 1840 into the mammoth Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company. He was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, where he spent his early years helping his father Morris Burke Belknap (the elder) (1780–1877) in an iron furnace foundry business.
Abraham Belknap (1589/90-1643), of Salem, Massachusetts, not to be confused with his grandson also named Abraham, was born in England. He was one of the first settlers of New England, and all living people with the surname Belknap, Belnap, or Beltoft, are thought to be descendants of him and his wife Mary Stallion.
In 1827 he made an extended trip through the ore fields of the Cumberland and Tennessee river district, and on horseback he made a careful exploration of this region. He appreciated the advantages here offered and, after enlisting requisite capital, he erected furnaces in Stewart County, Tennessee, and later at Nashville . . . .