Background
Moxham, Arthur James, , Wales 1854 1931 Male Manufacturer (Specific) Steel steel manufacturer, was born at Neath, Glamorganshire, South Wales, the son of Egbert and Katherine (Morgan) Moxham.
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Arthur Moxham
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His father was an architect of some prominence who died when the boy was quite young, and he was educated in the Clapton Orphan Asylum near London, from which he graduated in 1869 and came to America.
Career
About 1883 he moved to Johnstown, Pa. , where, in partnership with Tom L. Johnson [q. v. ], inventor of an iron girder rail, he formed the Johnson Company.
This plant was wiped out by the Johnstown Flood in 1889, but was rebuilt in another suburb named Moxham.
This increase in business was largely due to Moxham's ingenuity in organization and production.
The Johnson Company subsequently moved to Lorain, Ohio, and became the Lorain Steel Company.
In 1899 Moxham was instrumental in the formation of the Illinois Steel Company through the merging of the Lorain Steel Company and the Minnesota Iron Company.
It was later absorbed by the United States Steel Company.
Soon afterward Moxham retired from active business for a year and took a trip around the world in his yacht.
Later, he formed a partnership with H. M. Whitney of Boston, Massachussets, and went to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where he built the Dominion Iron & Steel Company.
He was regarded as one of the foremost steel experts both in the United States and abroad.
He died at Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y. [A. P. Van Gelder and Hugo Schlatter, Hist.
