Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Peacock, B. F. ? - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    B. F. PEACOCK, general manager of the United States rolling mill of
Anniston, which was built in 1863, but which was not very successful until Mr.
Peacock was made manager in 1887, is an Englishman by birth, and in his native
country acquired his knowledge of the iron working trade. He was manager there
in some of the largest rolling mills in the country. Beginning at the age of
eleven years he grew up in the business and learned it thoroughly both in theory
and practice. After coming to the United States, he located in Pittsburgh,
Penn., and then came to Anniston, Ala., and since this time has been connected
with the United States rolling mill in that city. He married Anna E. Port, by
whom he has had nine children, viz: Francis, Edward, Benjamin H., Frederick A.,
Emily F., Anna L., Adelaide, Ethel S., and May. Francis, the eldest son is a
draughtsman and civil engineer. He made all the drawings for all the extensions
of the United States works in Anniston. He is now leading draughtsman and
assistant engineer at the Maryland Steel company near Baltimore; Edward, the
second son, now holds a position in a ship building company and is the engineer
draughtsman of the company. The mother of these children was born in England.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Peacock are members of the Episcopal church. Mr. Peacock is
one of the most skillful workers in wrought iorn in the state of Alabama, his
education in that line having been obtained in England, where skill in all
trades is required. He prepared for the Anniston meeting of Alabama Industrial
and Scientific society, which met in 1891, a valuable paper on "The Future of
the Iron and Steel Industry in Alabama," which is full of information and close
reasoning, and in which Mr. Peacock states his belief in the direct production
of iron and steel from the ore without the interventon of the blast furnace and
puddling furnace, in view of the fact that a direct process was practiced by
certain of the ancients. His son, Francis L. Peacock, is one of the most
skillful draughtsman in the United States, developing the faculty while very
young, in England, where he produced a drawing which took the leading prize.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 611

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