MORRIS
BACHMAN. - - As
president of the Sharon Steel Hoop
Company, of Sharon, Morris
Bachman is actively identified with one of the leading interests of
the place and is influential in promoting its business prosperity. Coming
from thrifty German ancestry, he was born April 12, 1866, in Strasburg,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. His father, Christian
Bachman, a furniture manufacturer by occupation, was like wise born
in Strasburg and lived there during all of his life. The ancestors of the
Bachman family came from Switzerland and settled in Lancaster county at
the time Penn made eastern Pennsylvania a place of safety for those of any
religious belief. The Bachmans for many
generations have belonged to the plain religious sects, the Friends and
Mennonites.
Spending the days
of his youth and early manhood in Strasburg, Morris
Bachman was there graduated from the high school, after which he
completed a special course of study at the State Normal school,
Millersville, Pennsylvania. After finishing his schooling he entered the
office of J. W. Hoffman & Co.,
Philadelphia, iron and steel brokers, and from there went to Pittsburg,
where he became associated with Lindsay &
Mc Cutcheon, Carnegie Steel Company, William
Clark Sons Company, J. Painter &
Sons Company and other mills which manufactured finished steel in the
lines in which he is now engaged. When the American Steel Hoop Company was
formed, which absorbed all of the mills in this line of business, he was
made the general sales agent of that company, with offices in New York.
After tilling that position for several years he re signed and organized
the Sharon Steel Hoop Company and since then has made his residence in
Sharon, where he has taken an active interest in local affairs and is
officially connected with many of its leading organizations, being
president of the Sharon Steel Hoop Company, president of the Buhl Club and
of the Sharon Country Club, vice president of the Shenango Machine
Company, director in the Merchants’ & Manufacturers’ National
Bank, director in the American Steel Foundries of New York and vice
president of the Griffin Manufacturing Company, of Erie, Pennsylvania.
Mr.
Bachman was married on June 8, 1897, to Miss
Minnie Bachman, who, although bearing the same surname, does not
belong to the branch of the Bachman family from which he is descended.
Twentieth Century
History of Mercer County, 1909,
pages 367-368.
