Henry Warwood
Henry Warwood was born on 23 February 1823, the son of William Warwood, a skilled tool maker who was employed in the Brades Steel works. He died in 1858. William had married Sarah Harrison, who also died in 1858. They had nine children. Henry received a limited education as a child, but went to night school while employed in the factory where he began work at nine years of age. He emigrated to the United States in 1848, and remained at Pittsburgh working for the Lippincotts. He then started a small tool factory at Brown's Coal works, remaining until 1854, when he moved to Martin's Ferry, and started in the same business, making garden rakes and miners' toolsHis business increased and in 1868 he erected a large on First Street. He abandoned garden tools and produced miners' tools exclusively. In 1849 he married Mary Bradshaw.[1]
He made tools and cutlery in Cuyahoga Falls, before moving in 1854 to Martins Ferry, Ohio, where he established the Warwood Tool Co (USA). The business moved to Wheeling, West Virginia in the early 1900’s. A town sprang up around the factory, and it was named Warwood.[2] [3]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ [] BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO: History of the Upper Ohio Valley Vol. II, 1890. Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.
- ↑ British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900, by William E. Van Vugt, Kent University Press, 2006
- ↑ [1] Warwood Tool Co website