E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . THE SIFTING PROCESS, SHOWING THE ASBESTOS BEING SIFTED OVER SCREEN. 828 Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 108, No. 20 Franz Fohr (A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY \V. R. INGALLS) ON JULY 27, 1919, there passed away a simple,unassuming gentleman, who through his lifeallowed his intense modesty to keep him inthe background and during his later years effacedhimself so thoroughly that few of his old acquain-tances knew aught of him. Yet he was one of ouraccomplished metallurgists, who did good work in thepractice of his profession, and lived an upright life,and it
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . THE SIFTING PROCESS, SHOWING THE ASBESTOS BEING SIFTED OVER SCREEN. 828 Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 108, No. 20 Franz Fohr (A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY \V. R. INGALLS) ON JULY 27, 1919, there passed away a simple,unassuming gentleman, who through his lifeallowed his intense modesty to keep him inthe background and during his later years effacedhimself so thoroughly that few of his old acquain-tances knew aught of him. Yet he was one of ouraccomplished metallurgists, who did good work in thepractice of his profession, and lived an upright life,and it will be a pleasure to his old friends to havea record of him in the annals of the mining andmetallurgical industry. Now that he is no longerwith us, Franz Fohr cannot plead to be overlooked,and those who fondly remember him will be gratifiedby his receiving his FRANZ FOHR Franz Fohr was born on Sept. 7, 1838, in Mann-heim, Germany. Of his ancestiy, education, andearly career we know scarcely anything. We donot even know just when he came to America, orwhat led him hither. The first record of his pro-fessional work in this country, found among hispapers, shows that from July, 1870, to Jan. 1, 1872,he was superintendent of the Newark Smelting andRefining Works, then owned by Edward Balbach &Son. At that time the Balbach works at Newark,established in 1850, and the Selby works at SanFrancisco, established about 1866, were the only im-portant silver-lead refineries in the United Fohr may have been associated with the Bal-bachs for some time before he became superinten-dent of their plant, or he may have come from Ger-many only a short time previously. At all events. it is certain that he was at that time an experiencedand accomplished metallurgist, for after leavingNewark and going to San Francisco he soon formedsome kind of a con
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