Background
Gayley, James was born in October 11, 1855 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Alexander (Doctor of Divinity) and Agnes (Malcolm) G.
Gayley, James was born in October 11, 1855 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Alexander (Doctor of Divinity) and Agnes (Malcolm) G.
Mechanical Engineering, Lafayette College, 1876. (Doctor of Science, University of Pennsylvania, and Lehigh University).
Chemist for Crane Iron Works, Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, 1877-1880, Missouri Furnace Company, St. Louis, 1880-1882. E. & G. Brooke Iron Company, Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, 1882-1885. Superintendent blast furnaces of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works of Carnegie Steel Company, was promoted to manager Edgar Thomson plant and later to a managing director Carnegie Steel Company, until April 1901.
1st vice president United States Steel Corporation, 1901-1909. In charge ore mining, shipping, transportation. Invented a bronze cooling-plate for blast furnace walls, an auxiliary casting-stand for Bessemer steel plants, etc.
Received Elliott Cresson medal, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, for invention of dry air blast. President, director Sheffield Iron Corporation, American Ore Reclamatioh Company Trustee Lafayette College, Tome Institute, Maryland. President board directors American Institute Mining Engineers.
Member Iron and Steel Institute Great Britain. Home: New York, New York.
Member Iron and Steel Institute Great Britain.
Married Julia Thurston Gardiner, February 1884.