Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Chisholm, Henry

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AdminTop Contributor  ·   · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Chisholm, Henry, one of the most enterprising and successful business men of Cleveland, O., is of Scotch origin, having been born in Lochgelly, Fifeshire, April 27,1822. When he was ten years old his father died. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and served five years in learning the trade, after which he went as a jour- neyman to Glasgow. In 1842, Mr. Chisholm came to America, settling in Montreal, Canada. He soon began to under- take work on his own account, and in 1850, in partnership with a friend, took a contract for building at Cleveland, O., a breakwater for the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad, a task which was successfully accomplished in three years. This was succeeded by. other contracts, which employed his time and energies until he turned his at- tention to the iron business. For several years he has been president of the Cleveland Rolling Mill, which has large and important branches in Indiana and Illinois, a company which it is said supports more people than there were in the entire city of Cleveland, when, as an unknown stranger, he came to it years ago. Mr. Chisholm is a valued member of the Euclid Avenue Baptist church of Cleveland, and is in full sympathy with the educational and religious enter- prises of the day. As a Christian business man he stands in the very front rank.From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart