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SEW ALPdSY’S MASWACTOKlK'i.Credit to Wlioiu Credit U Doe for Tlielr Establishment on a Firm and Successful Basis.The following lt;%cu» ought and do« ally dispose of the baseless claim of the Jeffersonville News that New Albany owes its present extensive system of maQufacto^ ries and the city’s prosperity to Capt. John B. Ford, a former citizsn here:It was the late W. C. DePauw who estab^lisbed the plate glass industry in America,as was stated in Saturday’s Ledger, It wasthe late W. C. DePauw who estabTshed in Indiana the successful manufacture of window glass and fruit jars. It was the lata W. C. DePauw, Morris McDonald, Jesse J Brown, and the Jate John 8. McDonald who permanently established the rail mill of this city, of which Mr. DePauw and his son, C. W. DePauw, afterwards became owners, and which is now owned ehiefiy by the DePauw estate and Mr. Albert Trinier. It was the Jate W, C. DePauw, Peter R. Stoy, John McCullough and other New Albanians who established the Ohio Falls Iron Works of this city, the most euc cessful and extensive works of the kind in Indiana. It was the late W.C. D-Pauw, Lawrence Bradley, J. F. Gebha t. W. B. Richardson, the late R. G. McOH and Janies Hains who established the N-*w Albany Woolen and Cotton Mills, the largest in the west It wa9 the late W. G Des Pauw, C. W. DePauw and A'beit Trinier who established the New AHmii\ Smiotural Iron Works and its dep.irtn e rs of cable road iand railroad. structural \r and
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New Albany Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Mon, Jul 08, 1889
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