Pumping Machinery: Ancient and Modern. a Lecture Delivered Before the Class of Mechanical Engineering of Sibley College, Cornell University, April 26, 1889
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Josephus Flavius Holloway was an American mechanical engineer. He served as a president of the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Co.
Background
Josephus Flavius Holloway was born on January 18, 1825 in Uniontown, Ohio, United States. His father, Joseph T. Holloway, who had moved to Uniontown from Sunbury, Pennsylvania, again moved his family, when young Joseph was six years old, to a homestead in the wilderness on the banks of the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland. After clearing land for a home and farm he was able to resume his trade of cabinetmaker in the growing settlement. Later he was elected justice of the peace and in time became popular as a preacher of the Gospel.
Education
Holloway attended the settlement school for only a few short terms but received many hours of elementary instruction from his father.
Career
When Holloway was fourteen years old he obtained work as a helper in the drugstore at Cuyahoga Falls, and there became interested in mechanics through assisting a repairer of watches and clocks who carried on his business in the store. Later he served an apprenticeship with a firm of engine builders at the Falls and at the age of twenty went to Cabotsville, Massachussets, where he worked for a year as a machinist. Returning to Ohio, he became associated with the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, and within a year designed (with E. H. Reese) the machinery for the Niagara, a screw-propeller boat, built at Cleveland for service on the Great Lakes (1848). The design of this machinery, after receiving the approval of Horatio Allen, dean of the country's mechanical engineers, secured for Holloway a position with a boat-building firm at Pittsburgh, for which he designed and constructed the machinery of two boats which he took down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and up the coast to New York (1850).
At Wilmington, Delaware, he next designed and built a side-wheel iron steamer for the Cuban service. The success of the steam equipment in these crafts made Holloway's name known among engine builders and created a demand for his services. He next went to Cumberland, Maryland, as manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, and shortly after from there to Shawneetown, Illinois, where he took a similar position with the iron and coal works organized there by the William Sellers Company of Philadelphia.
About 1857 he returned to Cleveland and became successively superintendent, manager, and president of the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Works. From 1887, when the company merged with the Cleveland Steamboat Company, to 1894 he was connected with the firm of H. R. Worthington, hydraulic engineers of New York, serving as vice-president and treasurer and as adviser to the commercial and engineering branches of the business. At the expiration of a seven-year contract he became connected in a similar capacity with the Snow Steam Pump Works of Buffalo, with which he remained until his death.
Achievements
Holloway was a prominent engineer who was engaged in iron and coal works. He is best remembered as a president of the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Co. , and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was also connected with the Snow Steam Pump Works of Buffalo.
