Eber Brock Ward

Eber Brock Ward ( born December 25, 1811 in Applegaths Mills, Waterloo County, Ontario, † January 2, 1875 ) was an American big business.

Life

It was called the " Steamboat King of the Great Lakes ", but his interests also extended to the iron and steel production, the reduction of iron, copper and silver ore, railways, forestry, banking and insurance, glass production and the Press beings.

Ward was the third oldest of four children. The family came from Vermont, but had tried in vain to escape the British - American War of 1812. After a return to Vermont and a stopover in Ohio the father moved, now widowed, 1821 to Detroit. With twelve or thirteen Ward was already working as a cabin boy on the Great Lakes. Samuel Ward, an uncle, was at that time a leading shipbuilder in Marine City. He asked Eber Brock Ward at 1830 and this was soon Quarter owner of the ship General Harrison. From 1850, Ward worked as shipbuilders and shipowners in Detroit. Together with his uncle and partner Ward was at the Great Lakes to the dominant vessel owner.

From about 1852 invested Ward in woodland on the Pere Marquette River in Lake County, Michigan near Ludington. In 1860 he became president of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Company. Other successful investments were participating in a silver mine in Ontario and two saw mills at Lake Pere Marquette. Ward played a leading role in the founding of the Eureka Iron and Steel Works in 1853., Thanks to Ward's interest Eureka steel mill was the first in the U.S., in 1864 the Bessemer process anwandte.

Eber Ward Brook was married twice. Among his seven surviving children achieved only Clara Ward, Princesse de Chimay Caraman - awareness.