Whitaker iron family

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During the 19th and 20th centuries, several members of the Whitaker family and related families made important contributions to the American iron and steel industry.

Contents

An image from a 1911 Wheeling Corrugating Company catalog Sheet metals and sheet metal products - no. 292 (1911) (14781114464).jpg
An image from a 1911 Wheeling Corrugating Company catalog

First generation

Second generation

Drawing of Joseph Whitaker II and his wife Grace in a 1917 newspaper Drawing of Joseph Whitaker and Grace Adams Whitaker (1917) (cropped).png
Drawing of Joseph Whitaker II and his wife Grace in a 1917 newspaper

Third generation

Fourth generation

Samuel W. Pennypacker, 1905 Portrait of Samuel W. Pennypacker.jpg
Samuel W. Pennypacker, 1905

Fifth generation

Sixth generation

References

  1. Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker (1895). Joseph Rusling Whitaker 1824-1895 And His Progenitors (PDF). Philadelphia. p. 3. Retrieved 2011-08-12.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. "William and Mark Bird and the Founding of Hopewell Furnace, National Park Service
  3. transcribed bio, supposedly by Samuel Pennypacker
  4. Pennsylvania State Reports, vol. 18, vol. 6, Philadelphia, 1853, p. 440-448
  5. https://philly.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-obituary-for-w/133912082/ Obituary for Francis' son William H. Whitaker, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2, 1920, p. 16.
  6. Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and Washington, DC, National Biographical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1879, pp. 661-2
  7. The Autobiography of a Pennsylvanian, Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, Philadelphia, 1918, p. 56
  8. Joseph Rusling Whitaker 1824-1895 and His Progenitors, Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, Philadelphia, 1895, p. 13-16
  9. Statistics of the American and Foreign Iron Trades for 1891, American Iron and Steel Association, Philadelphia, 1892, p. 11
  10. New York Times, Oct. 5, 1920, obituary "William H. Whitaker"
  11. bio of E. S. Whitaker
  12. The Autobiography of a Pennsylvanian, Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, Philadelphia, 1918, p. 76
  13. Atlantic Reporter, volume 100, p. 280
  14. The Midland Journal, February 23, 1940, "Joseph Coudon Passes Away"
  15. Wheeling Hall of Fame entry for Alexander Glass
  16. bio of Albert C. Whitaker
  17. Pittsburgh Press, March 24, 1929, p. 25
  18. Industrial World, Vol. 44, issue 1
  19. Cornell Alumni News, August 1922, p. 474
  20. The Iron Age, Feb. 10, 1916, p. 384, "Whitaker-Glessner Company's Year" (Wagner a director of the Whitaker-Glessner Company)
  21. Wagner bio with picture at wvgenweb
  22. History of West Virginia, Old and New, Vol. 2, American Historical Society, 1923, p. 68-9
  23. https://wvculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mount-saint-joseph.pdf National Register of Historic Places registration form for Mount Saint Joseph/Holloway Estate
  24. bio of G. P. Whitaker
  25. obituary of George Parks Whitaker Jr.