Morris Burke Belknap (the elder)

Morris Burke Belknap (June 25, 1780 -July 26, 1877) was an early iron foundry owner and American industrialist[1] and "one of the pioneers in development of the iron industry west of the Allegheny Mountains."

[2] Belknap moved in 1807 to a colony in Marietta, Ohio where he started an iron industry.

[citation needed] W. B. Belknap, the oldest of Morris and Phoebe's six children, by following his father's chosen industrial manufacturing and retail career became the founder of Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company.

[6][7] in Louisville, Kentucky.Phoebe Belknap died February 5, 1873, in DeWitt, Arkansas, and Morris died at Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky on July 26, 1877.

[8] Kentucky historian E. Polk Johnson observed that Morris Burke Belknap's name "merits special prominence on the roster of those through whose constructive and initiative abilities encompassed the development of the great iron industry of the United States.