BIO: VICTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 284-287.
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  VICTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Another of the many manufacturing
  establishments for which Beaver county is noted is that of the Victor Mfg.
  Co., where cast-iron, enameled bath-tubs are made.
  
  There are but about a dozen concerns of this character in the country, the
  principal ones being in Pittsburg and vicinity. The officers of the Victor
  Mfg. Co. are: J. F. Bruggeman, president; John Rebman, Jr., farmer; James,
  attorney, who married Jane Sheldon, served as captain in Company H, 139th
  Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, and later
  died from the effects of the wound; John, the subject of this biography;
  Joanna, who married Peter Ivory, of Perrysville; and Mary, the widow of
  William Emery, of Indiana.
  
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  secretary and treasurer; and F. D. Cook, manager of the works. The works are
  located in Aliquippa, Beaver county, Pa.
  
  The company has a fine site of 3 1/2 acres of land lying between the P. & L.
  E. R. R. tracks and the Ohio River. Their plant comprises foundry, pickling
  and cleaning shop, enameling boiler and engine rooms, and warehouse and
  office. They have had success in marketing their product, and have always had
  sufficient orders to keep the works running steadily. Their plant, with
  exception of warehouse and office, was destroyed by fire in May, 1898, since
  which time the manufacturing has been carried on in temporary buildings.
  
  The Victor Mfg. Co. was organized in 1896, through the agency of William C.
  Degelman, of Pittsburg, who for two years was general manager. Mr. Cook, the
  present manager, is from New York, and, before engaging in the bath-tub
  manufacturing business, had been interested in the making of enameled
  advertising signs. Mr. Cook is an independent Republican, in politics, and,
  fraternally, a member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows.