BIO: Samuel Henry MOULDS, Beaver County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Joe Patterson Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/beaver.html http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/beaver/bios/bbios.htm Index for this bio book. _________________________________________________________________ BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES. This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Buffalo, N.Y., Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 229-231. _________________________________________________________________ SAMUEL HENRY MOULDS, under whose personal supervision and direction as foreman and assistant manager, the Rochester Tumbler Company has been operated since its organization, is a man who understands the business of manufacturing glass from beginning to end. Since he was ten years old he has been connected with such work, and the high state of efficiency in his office has rendered it possible for the company to lead all others in the world at that particular industry. He is also a stockholder and director of many of the most successful enterprises in the borough, - being a man of great shrewdness and foresight. He was born near Milltown, County Antrim, Ireland, December 9, 1845, and is a son of John and Nancy (Henry) Moulds. John Moulds, the father of Samuel Henry, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, and after his marriage removed to America with his family, - landing in the city of New York. He located at Steubenville, Ohio, where his wife had a brother and a number of friends, and there became a glass worker, which con- 230 BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES tinued to be his employment until within a short time of his death. He then was engaged in packing, working until the last. He was a man of remarkable dexterity for his age, and shaved himself, as was his custom, up to within three days of his death, which occurred in 1890, at the age of seventy-five years. He married Nancy Henry, whose father was William Henry, and the following offspring resulted: Jane, who married Joseph S. Mellor, employed in the Rochester Tumbler Works, and a stockholder in the company; William, whose biography appears elsewhere in this work; Samuel Henry, the subject of this record; Annie, the widow of Albert Albin, of Columbus, Ohio; Sarah, the wife of Eli Capers, of Steubenville, Ohio; Robert, who lives at Rochester; John, also a resident of Rochester; and Elizabeth, who makes her home at Steubenville, Ohio. At the age of ten years, Samuel Henry Moulds entered the glass manufacturing establishment at Steubenville, being employed in the press department until 1868, when he went to Pittsburg and continued in the same line of business until 1872, when he became an organizer, and one of the original stockholders, of the Rochester Tumbler Company. He has also been one of the directors from the first. Owing to his well-known skill and thorough knowledge of every detail of the work, he was chosen as foreman and assistant manager, and has since remained in that position. They manufactured both blown and pressed tumblers, and the demand for their product increased with amazing rapidity, compelling them to increase their facilities and enlarge the business, until now it is the largest of its kind in existence, and the most important industry in the borough of Rochester. They ship to all parts of the globe, sending out from three to ten carloads per day. Their capacity is 150,000 dozen blown tumblers, and 150,000 dozen pressed, per month, twelve hundred skilled workmen being employed the year around. They make their own boxes, barrels and crates for shipping, grind the clay and make pots, and also make their own molds. They have a large water tank containing 3,100 gallons, and have private water works and a private electric light plant. They also have an ice house for drinking purposes. The place is kept in the best of order, and reflects great credit upon the work of the gentlemen in charge. Our subject exacts the best work from each man under him, yet treats him with the greatest consideration and kindness, thereby retaining his good will to the highest extent. Mr. Moulds is a stockholder and director of the Rochester & Monaca Suspension Bridge Company,. of the Rochester Electric Plant, and of the Rochester Daily Star. In 1885, he built a fine residence at No. 103 West Washington street, on the corner of New York street, which was burned down and rebuilt in 1886. The subject of this writing was united in marriage with Belle Krewson, a daughter of Horace Krewson, and they have two children: Horace Fuller, who is engaged in the insurance business at Rochester; and Agnes K. Mr. Moulds has served as school director and BEAVER COUNTY 231 held various other borough offices. His portrait accompanies this sketch, being presented on a foregoing page.