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Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 as an import-export firm by Anson Greene Phelps and his two sons-in-law William Earle Dodge, Sr. and Daniel James. [1] The latter two ran Phelps, James & Co., the part of the organization based in Liverpool , England.
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Dodge was born in New York City on February 15, 1832, the eldest son of Melissa (née Phelps) Dodge and William E. Dodge Sr. (1805–1883), a U.S. Representative from New York. [1] His father and maternal grandfather, Anson Greene Phelps , were co-founders of the import firm of Phelps Dodge .
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Anson Green Phelps (March 24, 1781 – May 18, 1858) was an American entrepreneur and business man from Connecticut. Beginning with a saddlery business, he founded Phelps, Dodge & Co. in 1833 as an export-import business with his sons-in-law as partners, William E. Dodge in NYC and Daniel James based in Liverpool, England.
William Earl Dodge was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the second son of David Low Dodge, founder of the New York Peace Society, and his wife Sarah Cleveland, the daughter of minister Aaron Cleveland. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He married Melissa Phelps (1809–1903), a daughter of Anson Green Phelps and Olivia Egleston .
Peck's association with Anson G. Phelps laid the foundation for the creation of Phelps, Dodge & Co., a business that became the dominant importers of metals into America, and the dominant exporters of tin-plate from Britain for half a century. The company eventually became one of the largest copper mining and copper producing concerns in the world.
In that same year James moved to New York to further his education and work in the family business of Phelps, Dodge. The company was run by Anson Greene Phelps and three of his sons-in-law: In New York William Earl Dodge Sr. and James Stokes, and in the UK Daniel James. The primary trade was importing metals to America and exporting cotton to ...