Robert Wetherill

Engine builder and capitalist; born in Lower Merion, Montgomery County, Pa., Sept. 4, 1847. He is a direct descendant of Joran Keen, to whom in 1644 the Swedish Crown patented the territory upon which is located part of the present city of Chester. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and Upland Normal School. He married. Feb. 27, 1879, Mary В., daughter of William C. Gray, colonel of the 119th Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. He served an apprenticeship of four years with Miller & Allen, machinists and foundrymen, at Chester, Pa., acquiring practical knowledge of the business in all its details, and in charge of draughting department; in 1871 he erected a small foundry and engine building plant in Chester, Pa., and the following year formed a partnership with his brother, Richard Wetherill, the firm being Robert Wetherill & Company; is president of the Argo Leather Company; director of the Cambridge Trust Company, Chester, Pa., and member of the Union League of Philadelphia. Address: Chester, Pa.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, pp. 582-583.

Submitted by Nancy.