Volume 6 , Issue 37

Wrought Iron Range Company

"Greetings from Houston.  As I have been told the story, the Wrought Iron Range Company closed in the late 30's in St. Louis due largely to increased unionism (as the story has been told to me).

My dad worked there as a young clerk and was given the opportunity to come to Lufkin, Texas with a group of otherwise executives to start a new malleable iron foundry presumably with the assets of the Wrought Iron Range Co. Under the Presidency of a man named Col. Cal C. Chambers, the Texas Foundry was built and poured its first heat in 1939.  No longer making ranges, the Texas Foundry is today a jobbing foundry, producing no consumer products of its own, but making parts for others and for other industries.  A steel foundry was added in the mid 50's.

As a little boy, I used to pour through the recruiting and fund raising brochures of the Culver Military Academy sent home to me from Col. Chambers--never knowing until I read your article today, that there was a family tie between Culver and the old Wrought Iron Range Co. Small world." -- Don Looser - Email: Dlooser@aol.com   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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