Ohio County, West Virginia  Biography of Herbert Edwin Field.

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Submitted by Valerie Crook.

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 605
Ohio

HERBERT EDWIN FIELD, one of the prominent men in the
industrial affairs of the Wheeling District, has been a suc-
cessful executive, but his early training and experience for
the most part were on the technical side of the iron and
steel industry. He is probably one of the highest qualified
metallurgical engineers in the state.

He was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, November 4,
1872, son of Edwin H. and Emma (Smith) Field. He was
reared and educated in his native city, famous for its great
school of technology. He graduated from high school there,
and in 1895 received the Bachelor of Science degree from
the Polytechnic Institute. He specialized in metallurgy,
and his first employment was as metallurgist and assistant
to the foundry manager of the Builders Iron Foundry at
Providence, Rhode Island. Following this he was metal-
lurgist and assistant to the foundry manager of the Farrel
Foundry and Machinery Company of Ansonia, Connecticut,
and then went to Pittsburgh, where he was foundry manager
of the Mackintosh-Hemphill Company and later of the Sea-
man-Sleath Company. Since coming to Wheeling Mr. Field
has been president and general manager of the Wheeling
Mold & Foundry Company, one of the large and important
industries of the Wheeling District. He is also a director
of the Dollar Savings & Trust Company of Wheeling.

During the World war Mr. Field served as a member of
the War Industries Board. He is a republican in politics,
a member of the Congregational Church, and has many
connections with social, civic and technical organizations,
including the Engineers Club of New York, Duquesne Club,
Pittsburgh Athletic Association and Fellows Club of Pitts-
burgh, the Edgeworth Club of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, the
Port Henry Club and Wheeling Country Club of Wheeling,
and the Nemacolin Country Club of Beallsville, Pennsyl-
vania.

In 1900, at Hartford, Connecticut, Mr. Field married Miss
Cora Chaney, daughter of Albert M. and Etta Field Chaney.
Mr. Field is a member of the American Iron & Steel In-
stitute, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers, American Institute of Mechanical Engineers,
American Chemical Society, American Society for Testing
Materials and American Academy of Political and Social
Science.