Background
Kilbourn, William Douglas was born on February 3, 1880 in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. Son of Jonathan Burwell and Mary Adeline (Douglas) Kilbourn.
Kilbourn, William Douglas was born on February 3, 1880 in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. Son of Jonathan Burwell and Mary Adeline (Douglas) Kilbourn.
Engineer of Mines, Colo, School of Mines, 1904.
Chemist, Illinois Steel Company, Chicago, 1904-1905. Chemist and draftsman, Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, at Pueblo, Colorado, 1905-1906. Engineer, West. & B. Douglas, Middletown, Connecticut, 1907-1908.
Night superintendent Murray (Utah) Smelter, 1908-1910.
Superintendent blast furnaces, International Smelting & Refining Company, Tooele, Utah, 1913-1914. Research metallurgist, United States Refining & Mining Company, 1916-1917.
Assistant and acting superintendent East Chicago Lead Refinery, 1917-1920. Mine operator, Colorado, 1921.
President White Iron Ores and Products Company (mines at Madera, Colo).
Inventor Kilbourn’s construction strips, Arsenor, methods of handling blast furnace matte, process for reduction of metals from their ores by carbon from solid fuel, and blast furnace and sublimation processes. Disclosed large bodies of arsenic ore in Colorado.
Member Sigma Nu.; Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle).
Married Clara Howe, September 14, 1917. Children: Charlotte Lee, William Douglas.