. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . of his father and uncle, and became familiar withboth branches of the business, and in 1850 he engagedwith the New Jersey Zinc Company at Newark, NewJersey. Following a course of careful experiments to asuccessful issue, he patented, in 1852, the well-knownWetherill Furnace, for the manufacture of white oxide ofzinc directly from the ore. In the year following he builtthe Lehigh Zinc Works at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Hewas the first to produce metallic zinc commercially inAmerica, and in 1857 produced the ingot from whic
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . of his father and uncle, and became familiar withboth branches of the business, and in 1850 he engagedwith the New Jersey Zinc Company at Newark, NewJersey. Following a course of careful experiments to asuccessful issue, he patented, in 1852, the well-knownWetherill Furnace, for the manufacture of white oxide ofzinc directly from the ore. In the year following he builtthe Lehigh Zinc Works at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Hewas the first to produce metallic zinc commercially inAmerica, and in 1857 produced the ingot from whichwas rolled the first sheet of metallic zinc in the UnitedStates. Soon after the breaking out of the War of the Re-bellion, he volunteered and recruited two companies ofcavalry at Bethlehem, and was assigned to HarlansLight Cavalry, afterwards the Eleventh PennsylvaniaCavalry, and commissioned captain August 19, 1861. With his regiment he saw hard and gallant servicewith the Armies of the Potomac and the James, some-times commanding the regiment, often on detached duty. with his battalion. His last duty was as chief of staff toGeneral Kautz, commanding the cavalry of the Army ofthe James. He was beloved by his officers and men,and had not only the respect and confidence of his supe-riors as a soldier and an officer, but secured their regardand esteem as a gentleman. Captain Wetherill was promoted major October 1,1861 ; was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, United Statesvolunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritoriousconduct throughout the campaign of [864 against Rich-mond, Virginia, ami was honorably mustered out of theservice September 30, 1864. 392 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer)
Size: 1353px × 1846px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidofficersofarmyna01powe
