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Author: Robert W Wolcott
Date: 27 Oct 2013
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Language: English
Format: Paperback::26 pages
ISBN10: 1258978113
ISBN13: 9781258978112
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Dimension: 152x 229x 1mm::50g

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A Woman in Steel : Rebecca Lukens, 1794-1854

Rebecca Lukens was much more than an iron mill owner. According to Scott Huston, President of the Graystone Society which oversees her home and preserves the heritage of Lukens Steel, her business acumen extended to a variety of pursuits. "Rebecca owned a warehouse, store, saddler's shop, and ten dwellings in Coatesville that generated revenue SS Rebecca Lukens (MC contract 1551) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.She was the country's first Liberty ship named after a woman industrialist. Dubbed "America's first female CEO of an industrial company" Fortune Magazine, Rebecca Webb Pennock Lukens owned and managed the iron works which became Lukens Steel Company. Lukens Historic District is a historic district in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Its National Historic Landmark summary listing says: This district is associated with Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854), who played a leading role in the 19th-century American iron industry, and her family legacy. During 1917 the company adjusted the name again to Lukens Steel Company. Continuing through the year Lukens started to produce 204 inch steel plates making it the creator of the World's largest plate. Two years later the plates increased another two inches to 206, staying at the World's largest plate mill for over 40 years. History on Tap at The Whip Tavern The Chester County Historical Society in partnership with the National Iron and Steel Museum invite you to meet America s first woman industrialist, Rebecca Lukens. FIRST. Pennsylvania women have been leaders in just about every field of endeavor. Several firsts belong to Pennsylvania women, including the first woman industrialist, Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854), who took over her family s iron business in 1825; Pearl Buck (1892-1973), the first woman to win both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes in A Woman in Steel: Rebecca Lukens, 1794-1854. Robert W. Wolcott | Oct 27, 2013. Paperback $20.95 $ 20. 95. FREE Shipping on orders over $25 shipped Amazon. Usually ships within 1 to 2 months. Hardcover $35.95 $ 35. 95. FREE Shipping Amazon. Woman: an afirmation. nineteenth century (Hartigan O Connor 3), women business owners such as Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854) of Lukens Steel existed. Like Rebecca Lukens, women members and officers of corporations and corporately structured or-ganizations were often the wives of for-profit businessmen (Ginzberg 48). 6 Heather Blain Vorhies Lukens (1794-1854) was raising young children and was pregnant with She laid the groundwork for what eventually became Lukens Steel. Following the deaths of her father (1824) and her husband (1825), Rebecca Lukens managed the commercial aspects of the iron business (1825 54). She triumphed over many difficulties and died with an estate valued at over $100,000. The Lukens Steel Lukens, Rebecca (1794 1854)American industrialist and iron manufacturer.Name variations: Rebecca Pennock Lukens; Rebecca Webb Lukens. Born Rebecca Webb Pennock in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on January 6, 1794; died near Coatesville, Pennsylvania, on December 10, 1854; eldest surviving child of six daughters and three sons (an older sister having died in Rebecca Lukens (1794 1854) born Rebecca Webb Pennock was an American businesswoman. She was the owner and manager of the iron and steel mill which became the Lukens Steel Company of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Rebecca Lukens was an American businesswoman, who ran a steel mill from 1825 until her retirement in 1847. In the mid-1990s, the mill the Lukens Steel A Woman in Steel: Rebecca Lukens, 1794-1854 [Robert W. Wolcott] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This is a new release of the original 1948 edition. Rebecca Pennock Lukens, 1794-1854 Brandywine Valley, PA Business: Iron and Steel In 1825, the widow Rebecca Pennock Lukens was pregnant with her sixth child when she purchased the remaining interest in her late father s struggling business, Brandywine Iron & Nail. In the early 1800s Rebecca Lukens became one of America's first female industrialists after her husband died. She took on the running of the Lukens steel plate rolling mill in Rebecca Webb Pennock Lukens (1794-1854) was one of the most pow- erful and Lukens Steel, until recently a Fortune 500 company, located in Coatesville, her contemporaries as a "woman of iron,"5 who succeeded in the most overtly. Lukens Steel Company. 70 likes. Lukens Steel Company, located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, is the oldest steel mill in commission within the United States.

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