Alan Wood (1800 - 1881)

Born 25 Dec 1800 in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA

Descendants

Died 24 Nov 1881 at age 80 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

Alan was born in 1800. He passed away in 1881.

Woodlands Cemetery Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

Iron Manufacturer. He was one of the pioneers in the iron business in the United States. He built the Conshohocken Rolling Mills and later the Delaware Iron Works, near Wilmington, Delaware. He retired in 1870, leaving his son, Alan Wood, Jr., in charge of his businesses. He was the husband of Ann Hunter Dewees. ∼ Wood was a pioneer of iron and steel production in the United States. In 1816 his father James Wood opened the Iron Works at Valley Forge, where the first cast steel and sheet iron were manufactured in the United States. By 1826 father and son were partners in the Delaware Iron Works. This partnership continued with the Conshohocken Iron Works, which produced 500 tons of sheet iron and steel annually. Wood kept up with the tradition of the family business by bringing his sons, W. Dewees, Thomas, Alan, Jr., and Howard, into the firm of Alan Wood & Company. After Wood's retirement in 1870, the firm went on to build steel factories near Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which later became integral parts of U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel. In 1892.

Sources

• Wood family tree.

Records of Christ P.E., CH., Upper Merion Twp., Montgomery County, PA; Rena P. Schenermann Family research; History of Chester Co., PA (1881) by Futhey and Coper; Will of Sara Waters Dewees, Chester Co., PA; 1800-1850 Chester Co., PA census; Obit in Philadephia Saturday Bulletin (newspaper); Philadelphia Co. tax lists; Records and tombstones of St Mary's Episcopal Church, Chester Co., PA; Records of St Jame's Episcopal Church (old) Philadelphia Co. PA; P.E. LaMunyan, "The Deweese Family" (1905); Jack Vaughn; W. Dewees Yeager

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