In August 1908 at the age of 27, Harold H. Goe applied to work for the Anaconda Copper Company, better known as the ACM. He had attended the Colorado School of Minutes and previously worked in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, before coming to Anaconda, Montana.[1]
His first job at the company was with the surface department at the Reduction Works. Six months later he transferred to the testing department and worked there until 1912.[2] In the same year, he married my great-aunt, Helena Marie Sullivan, who was known as Nellie, in Portland, Oregon, where she was living with her grandparents, John and Margaret Gleeson.[3]
He next worked at the laboratory from 1912 to 1915 and then the Brick Department as the superintendent. He claimed he was a metallurgical Engineer.[4]
Several articles were found at the Internet Archive and HathiTrust that mentioned a patent awarded to Harold for a brick machine that makes taper bricks using a combination of an upper die with an inclined surface to produce the taper.[5] More details about the machine can be found at Google Patents.[6]
In 1922, he was promoted to superintendent of roasters, reverberatory furnace and coal pulverizing.[7] In 1922, he wrote an article titled “Reverberatory Smelting.”[8] In 1925, he was appointed superintendent of smelting.[9]
In 1935, he gave a talk at the first technical meeting of the Clay Products Manufacturers of Montana on “Refractories, their manufacture and use.”[10] He retired in 1941.
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1. Employment application, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Harold H. Goe, 9 May 1908, Marcus Daly Historical Society, Anaconda, Montana.
2. Employment record, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Harold H. Goe, 26 July 1919, Marcus Daly Historical Society.
3. For marriage, see Multnomah Co., Oregon, marriage certificate, no. 23367, Harold H Goe to Helena M Sullivan, 1912, imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF2-89YW-Z), digital film 103140221, images 4719-4720. For grandparents, see Wedding Invitation, Helena Mary Sullivan to Mr. Harold Hutchinson Goe, privately held by the author.
4. Employment record, 1919.
5. “Ceramic Abstracts,” The Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Sept 1920 (v 3, no. 9), p 774.
6. Brick Machine, U.S. Patent 1344880A, Harold H. Goe, 19
7. “Several Departments Have New Heads, According to The Anode,” Anaconda Standard, 19 Feb 1922, p. 2. Also, “Anaconda Reduction Works,” The Anode, Feb 1922, p. 11.
8. “Reverberatory Smelting,” The Anode, v. 8 (Apr 1922).
9. “Harold H. Goe Funeral Set This Morning,” Anaconda Standard, 9 Apr 1956, p. 1, col. 4.
10. “Montana School of Mines Holds Ceramic Conference,” American Ceramic Bulletin, v. 14, (May 1935), p. 186.
#52Ancestors-Week 11: Brick wall
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