Death of Industrialist Horace Ware This Date in 1890

From the July 2, 2018, Alabama News Center "On This Day in Alabama History:  Industrialist Horace Ware Dies."

In the 1850s-1860s Horace Ware established the Shelby Ironworks, the first rolling mill in Alabama.

During the Civil War is supplied iron to the Confederate Naval Arsenal at Selma.  Its machinery was destroyed by Union forces in the waning days of the war.

Ware was able to get northern investors to commit money to his company to rebuild but now he focused on making rail car wheels.

He retired to Birmingham where he died July 2, 1890.