Boar Brock Ward

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Boar Brock Ward about 1875

Eber Brock Ward (born December 25, 1811 in Applegaths Mills, Waterloo County in the province of Ontario , † January 2, 1875 in Detroit , Michigan) was a large American entrepreneur.

Life

He was called the "steamship king of the Great Lakes ", but his interests also extended to iron and steel production, the mining of iron, copper and silver ore, railways, forestry, banking and insurance, glass production and that Press.

Wards was the third oldest of four children. The family came from Vermont but had tried unsuccessfully to avoid the British-American War of 1812. After a return to Vermont and a stopover in Ohio, the father, now widowed, moved to Detroit in 1821 . By the age of twelve or thirteen, Ward was already working as a cabin boy on the Great Lakes. Samuel Ward, an uncle, was a leading shipbuilder in Marine City at the time . He hired Eber Brock Ward in 1830 and he soon became the quarter owner of the ship General Harrison . From 1850 Ward worked as a shipbuilder and shipowner in Detroit. Together with his uncle and partner, Ward became the dominant ship owner on the Great Lakes.

Ward's Detroit home at W. Fort St

From about 1852 Ward invested in woodland on the Pere Marquette River in Lake County near Ludington . In 1860 he became president of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Company . Other successful investments were participation in an Ontario silver mine and two sawmills on Lake Pere Marquette. Ward played a leading role in founding the Eureka Iron and Steel Works in 1853. The Eureka steel mill was the first in the United States to use the Bessemer process in 1864, thanks to Ward's interest .

Eber Brook Ward was married twice. Among his seven surviving children, only Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay achieved notoriety.

literature

  • Bessemer, Henry, Sir Henry Bessemer, FRS, an autobiography with a concluding chapter , ca.1850 .
  • Cabot, James L. Ludington 1830-1930 , Arcadia Publishing 2005, ISBN 0-7385-3951-1 .
  • Carlisle, Frederick, Chronography of notable events in the history of the Northwest territory and Wayne County , OS Gulley, Borman & Co., Printers, 1890.
  • Catlin, George B., Librarian of The Detroit News, The story of Detroit , The Detroit News, 1923.
  • Fricke, Ernest B., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, Iron and Steel in the Nineteenth Century, The Kelly Pneumatic Process Company and the Steel Patents Company, Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1989, ISBN 0-8160-1890-1 .
  • Hillstrom, The industrial revolution in America, Volume 8, ABC-CLIO, 2007, ISBN 1-85109-620-5 .
  • Lamar, Howard R., The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977, ISBN 0-690-00008-1 .
  • Leake, Paul, History of DETROIT , Lewis Publishing Company 1912.
  • White, James T., The National Cyclopedia of American biography , JF Tapley Co. 1906.
  • Page, HR, History of Mason, Oceania, and Manistee Counties, Michigan, 1882.
  • Tuttle, Charles Richard, General History of the state of Michigan with biographical sketches , RDS Tyler & Co., Detroit Free Press Company, 1873.
  • Western Historical Company, History of St. Clair County, Michigan: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, its war record, biographical sketches, the whole preceded by a history of Michigan , AT Andreas & Company, 1883.
  • Woodford, Arthur M., This is Detroit, 1701-2001 , Wayne State University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8143-2914-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lamar, Howard R., The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977, ISBN 0-690-00008-1 , p. 464.
personal data
SURNAME Ward, Boar Brock
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American major entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Applegaths Mills, Waterloo County , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1875
Place of death Detroit , Michigan