#iron worker

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Heat rises, so what must it have been like on the 38th floor of the Socony-Mobil Building while it was under construction in June of 1955? Iron worker Thomas Enright knew only too well.

Photo: NY Daily News

[supplyside]

sky rise

[sailorgrey]

the iron worker, autumn 1969

[responsivethoughts]

Photo of a brave ironworker during construction of the Columbia Tower, Seattle, 1984.

[californiastatelibrary]

A 1968 image showing an iron worker on the job in San Francisco, with the Bay bridge visible in the background. From our online catalog.

[higherentity]

[imd27]

Title: 軍鶏 -Shamo-

3d modeling weld art sculpture made by Kentaro Takahashi blacksmith in Japan. photo by IMD27

Grandprix stuff of 2020 welders cup in Japan  held by SUZUKID.

hope you check our website 8°WORKS -patch works-.

[scotianostra]

John McArthur was born on November 17th 1826 in Erskine.

McArthur,  learnt his fathers trade as a blacksmith. He emigrated to America at the age of twenty-three and settled in Chicago. There he became a manager and owner in a Chicago Iron Works and at the start of the American Civil War, became a Captain of a militia company who became known as Chicago Highland Guards due to the Highland Bunnet's most of the soldiers wore. 

In May of 1861, he became colonel of the 12th Illinois Infantry. He fought in engagements and battles in places including Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. Promoted to brigadier general on March 21, 1862; he took part in the Battle of Shiloh, in which he was wounded. As divisional commander, he led troops at Iuka, Corinth and in the Vicksburg Campaign and Siege. 

He was brevetted a major general for his service in the Battle of Nashville, and was assigned to the Army of the Gulf for the rest of the war. I must admit I have seen the word brevet many times, and knew hit was a military term, so just looked it up for the first time, it means a warrant giving to a commissioned officer a higher rank title as a reward for gallantry or meritorious conduct but may not confer the authority, it often meant they didn't get the pay rise that usually came with the job.

McArthur left the military in August 1865, and returned to his iron business. It did poorly, and his position as Chicago public works commissioner ended after the Chicago fire of 1871. 

He may not be the most famous general but they though enough of him to put a bust of him in Vicksburg National Military Park

He was postmaster of Chicago, but was found culpable for losing $73,000 of postal funds in a bank failure. After retiring, McArthur died in Chicago, on May 15th, 1906 aged 79, a good auld age!