Rash's Surname Index
Notes for George Escol SELLERS
George Escol and his brother, Charles, developed in the 1830's new designs in railroad locomotives that were to become standard in future American productions. These included the outside cylinders, the iron frames, the counterbalanced driving wheels and the center bearing truck.
George Escol Sellers, b. in Phila., Nov. 26, 1808, d. at Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 1, 1899; was a mechanical engineer, and from 1829 to 1841 a member of firm of Coleman Sellers & Sons; patented a number of useful devices in mechanics, including improvements in locomotives, particularly the hill climbing type which he built for the Panama Railway; also a process for manufacturing lead pipe, and for making paper from vegetable fibre, being a pioneer in both arts. He had considerable talent as an artist, and with Sully, Darley, and others, organized one of the earliest social organizations of artists in Philadelphia; he was actively interested in archæological research pertaining to the American Indians, and formed a valuable collection of pottery and implements of the prehistoric tribes of the Ohio valley. After the dissolution of the firm of Coleman Sellers & Sons, he removed to Cincinnati, and subsequently to southern Illinois, finally after retirement from active business he resided at his place "Crestview" on Mission Ridge, Chattanooga, where he died. He m., at Phila., March 6, 1833, Rachel Brooks Parrish, b. July 18, 1812, died at Sellers Landing, Hardin Co., Ills., Sept. 14, 1860, dau. of Robert A. and Eleanor Parrish, of Phila.; they had six children.
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