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People Associated With Birdsill Holly



John Walsh





John D. Walsh was a close friend and loyal employee of Birdsill Holly for nearly forty years. Walsh was the son of a poor family. At the age of seventeen, Walsh enlisted and fought in the Civil War. At the end of the war he went to work for the Holly Manufacturing Company as an apprentice in the pattern department. He remained there for several years as a pattern maker. Walsh helped Holly install his first steam system in 1876 and became superintendent of the Holly Steam Combination Company. In 1914 Walsh wrote "Reminiscence and the Early Day Struggle of Central Station Steam Heating," A copy of this 12 page letter is available at the Niagara County Historical Society in Lockport.



William Rees

William D. Rees was an employee of the Holly Steam Combination Company and its successor, the American District Steam Company, from 1877 until his death in 1932.



David Bishop

David Francis Bishop was the first president of the Holly Steam Combination Company, and later president of the American District Steam Company. He died April 25, 1885.



Robert Bishop

Robert Smithson Bishop was born in Paris, New York in November 1831. He became president of the American District Steam Company on March 1, 1886. He was responsible for many of the early district heating systems installed in the US, particularly several in Pennsylvania. He died in Lockport Dec. 31, 1896



Charles Bishop

Charles Robert Bishop was born in Medina, New York, 28 March 1867, the son of Robert S. Bishop, physician and surgeon. In 1897 he was electric secretary and general manager of the American District Steam Company of Lockport. Bishop was also president of the Economy Light, Fuel and Power Company, which was the successor operating company for Birdsill Holly's original 1876 Lockport steam system. Bishop died in 1954.




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