HARBISON-WALKER REFRACTORIES COMPANY
The Harbison-Walker Refractories Company is one of
the largest manufacturers of fire brick in the United States.
It owns 40,718 acres, and leases 22,500 acres of clay, coal
and ganister properties, located in the States of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Alabama, maintaining
33 plants, equipped with modern machinery. The com-
pany has an authorized and outstanding capital of $27 ,000,-
000 common stock, and $9,000,000 69, cumulative pre-
ferred stock, of the par value of $100. There isnofunded debt.
The company was incorporated June 30, 1902, in Penn-
sylvania, to consolidate leading firebrick interests. It
absorbed the following properties: Harbison-Walker
Company; Clearfield (Pa.) Fire Brick Company; Isaac
Reese & Sons Company; Phillipsburg (Pa.) Fire Brick
Company; Fredericks, Munro & Co.; Wallacetown (Pa.)
Fire Brick Co.; American Fire Brick Co., Lock Haven, Pa.;
Basic Brick Co., Johnstown, Pa.; Clinton County Fire
Brick Co.; Portsmouth (Ky.) Fire Brick Co.: Fayette
Manufacturing Co.
On November 11, 1902, the company purchased all the
stock issue of the Portsmouth and Kentucky Fire Brick
Co., including all property of said company, acquired from
the Portsmouth Fire Brick Co., Kentucky Fire Brick Works,
Webster Fire Brick Co., Blast Furnace Fire Brick Co., and
Portsmouth and Tygart Valley Railroad Co.
During the period since the purchase of these proper-
ties, in 1902, a number of the plants have been dismantled
and new plants were erected at Hays Station, Pa., Mt.
Union, Pa., East Chicago, Ind., Birmingham, Ala.., and
Harwalk, O.
The officers of the company are: Chairman, H. W.
Croft; President, J. E. Lewis; Vice-President, O. M. Reif;
Vice President, Hamilton Stewart; Vice President, Nin
McQuillen; Secretary, P. R. Hilleman; Treasurer, William
Walker. The directors are H. W. Croft, R. W. Harbison.
J. E. Lewis, Nin McQuillen, O. M. Reif, Hamilton Stewart.
Kenneth Seaver, R. H. Youngman, J. E. MacCloskey, Jr..
William Walker, J. J. Brooks, Jr., Raymond Willey, T. L.
Chadbourne, Jr., J. B. Cullum and J. F. Fletcher.
