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Isaac Pennock: was the founder of the Federal Slitting Mill iron works that eventually evolved into the Lukens Steel Company.

Pennock Family's Beginings in Pennsylvania
The Pennock family owned large tracts of land in Pennsylvania that were granted by fellow quaker William Penn. Joseph Pennock, Isaac's grandfather, arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1701 and Settled in West Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania in 1710. In 1738 Joseph Pennock built Primitive Hall, regarded as the ancestral seat of the Pennock family in America.

Federal Slitting Mill
Isaac Pennock recognized that the long repression of the iron industry by Great Britian during the colonial period had resulted in a scarcity of plants and products; which coupled with the beginnings of the industrial age in the US, was creating a growing demand. Although the earliest records of the of Isaac Pennock's buisness has not survived, it is know that he was operating by 1793.

The name, Federal Slitting Mill, reflected pride in the newly won American independence. It operated for many years. Iron bars or blooms, purchaced from local forges and brought to the mill by wagon, were first heated, then rolled or hammered into rough sheets. The sheets were then cut, or "slit" into rods or strips. These rods and strips could be fashioned into wheel rims, barrel hoops, braces ans miscellaneous blacksmith iron.

Brandywine Iron Works and Nail Factory
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