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Clayton Mark founded Clayton Mark and Company in 1900 in Evanston to manufacture wrought steel pipe and water well supplies. [2] Clayton Mark, along with his four sons Clarence Mark, Clayton Mark, Cyrus Mark, and Griffith Mark held various positions in the firm and made it a driver of Evanston's economy. [3]
Clayton Mark (June 30, 1858 – July 7, 1936), one of the pioneer makers of steel pipe in the United States, was an industrialist in the Chicago area who founded the Mark Manufacturing Company in 1888, a firm for the fabrication and sale of water-well supplies and Clayton Mark and Company in 1900.
The paper started out life as the Independent and, later, the Lake County Independent based in Libertyville in 1892. By 1921 the paper was known as the Waukegan Daily News and in 1930 it purchased the Waukegan Daily Sun (founded 1897) and merged the two papers to become the Waukegan News-Sun, a name it would operate under until 1971.
Midwest Steel & Iron Works was a metal fabrication company based in Denver, Colorado.Founded in 1893, the company was known for a time as the Jackson-Richter Iron Works. The company was one of the oldest and largest metal fabricators in Den
The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling to and from Chicago, although it operated almost entirely within the city's suburbs, only entering Chicago where it served the U.S. Steel South Works on the shores of ...
In December 2003, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. [1] [6] In May 2004, ISG acquired the assets of bankrupt Weirton Steel, the second largest producer of tin mill products in the U.S., for $187 million in cash. [1] [7] In June 2004, ISG acquired the assets of bankrupt Georgetown Steel for $18 million in cash ...
Wally Amos, a once Tallahassee resident who built a cookie kingdom, died Thursday in Hawaii. The Florida capital city native who became known to the world as Famous Amos in the late '70s and '80s ...
Ray Bradbury, author, iconic science-fiction writer, wrote about 1920's Waukegan as "Green Town" in many of his novels and short stories; James Grippando, New York Times best-selling novelist [citation needed] Isadore Gilbert Jeffery (1840-1919), poet, lyricist; Ward Just, writer; Kim Stanley Robinson, science-fiction writer; born in Waukegan ...