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The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers was founded on September 1, 1893. On that day, at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, representatives from the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders, which had been organized on October 1, 1880, and the National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, which had been formed in ...
William Francis Moran Jr. (May 1, 1925 – February 12, 2006), also known as Bill Moran, was a pioneering American knifemaker who founded the American Bladesmith Society and reintroduced the process of making pattern welded steel (often called "Damascus") to modern knife making.
Also scheduled is a blacksmith competition to be held in Johnstown's Central Park. The past locations by year are as follows: [3] 1973: Lumpkin, Georgia 1974: Lumpkin, Georgia 1975: Greenville, South Carolina 1976: Carbondale, Illinois 1978: Purchase, New York 1980: Santa Cruz, California 1982: Ripley, West Virginia 1984: De Pere, Wisconsin
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By 1925, the union had 15,000 members, but would only admit white workers as blacksmiths, black workers being restricted to helper roles. [1] Membership grew to 25,000 in 1950. [ 4 ] On May 16, 1951, it merged into what is now the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers .
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Feb. 25—Bear Creek blacksmith David Frey, a German immigrant, knew he could do better business relocating to East Market and Canal streets next to the North Branch Canal in Wilkesbarre sometime ...
The place where a blacksmith works is variously called a smithy, a forge, or a blacksmith's shop. While there are many professions who work with metal, such as farriers , wheelwrights , and armorers , in former times the blacksmith had a general knowledge of how to make and repair many things, from the most complex of weapons and armor to ...