HAY, A. T.

HAY

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/26/2025 at 20:18:57

BURLINGTON CITY.
(P. O. BURLINGTON)

HAY, A. T., proprietor of Hay's , Steel Works, No. 115 Columbia St.; native of Montgomery Co., Penn.; came to Iowa in 1851, in the interests ot the 111. & Miss. Telegraph Company, with headquarters at Burlington ; left that business in 1854, and went to Minneapolis as agent of the U. S. Land Office, returning to Burlington in 1857, when he opened a real estate and law office, which business was conducted until 1866, and relinquished on account of ill-health; since then, has been engaged as an inventor and manufacturer, specifically in scientific and metallurgic investigations, which have resulted in what is now known as the Hay Steel Process. Mr. Hay is self-educated ; his early education, until he became of age, having been extremely limited ; during this time, he was bred to his father's trade— a blacksmith ; since attaining majority, he has given himself a thorough scientific and legal education. His wife is a native of Iowa, born at Burlington in 1835, and is the oldest native Iowan.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879