Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William Henry WORRILOW
Industrialist. Born in Chester, Pennsylvania and beginning life in humble circumstances, he co-founded the Lebanon Steel Foundry on December 11, 1911. The original foundry building was a wooden shed, 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, and employed 20 men. From this beginning the foundry progressed and in 1915 the Lebanon Steel Foundry became the first company to use electric furnaces for the production of commercial steel castings. He advanced the reputation of the Lebanon Steel Foundry abroad, and in 1938, noted with interest the rivet-less armor plate with contoured surfaces being made by Germany which greatly reduced a tank's vulnerability. He worked to develop for the United States Government a program of research and development for armor plate, which proved to be an important factor in the Allied fighting forces during World War II. He served variously as president of the Steel Founder's Society of America, president of the Alloy Casting Association, president of the Alloy Casting Institute and served in World War II as a member of the Steel and Alloy Casting Advisory Committee of the War Production Board. In 1948, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Metals for promoting the use of alloy steel castings throughout the American industry.
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