William Brady papers, 1911-1923 | Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

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Collection Overview

Title: William Brady papers, 1911-1923

Primary Creator: Brady, William

Extent: 2.0 Folders

Arrangement: Chronological

Subjects: Purdue University--Faculty

Forms of Material: Articles

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Two folders containing articles by William Brady, correspondence written by him and 2 obituaries for him.

Biographical Note

William Brady was born in Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1864. He moved to the South Chicago area in 1889. Brady was the chief chemist of the Illinois Steel plant of South Chicago and dean of the Chemistry and Metalllurgia of Steel. He was survived by his wife Laura, a daughter, Mrs. Victoria Brady Abbott, and a son, Van William Brady, and three bothers and a sister. The funeral was held April 26, 1923 at the Windsor Park Masonic Temple.

Subject/Index Terms

Purdue University--Faculty

Administrative Information

Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation: MSF 47, William Brady papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries

Box and Folder Listing

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[Folder 1: Articles and Correspondence, 1911-1919],
[Folder 2: Article and Obituaries, 1916-1923],
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Folder 1: Articles and Correspondence, 1911-1919

One letter written by William Brady to Flora Roberts, which details publications he had written.

Four articles:

The Determination of Dust In Blast-Furnace Gas, by William Brady and L. A. Touzalin, reprinted from the Journal of Industrial And Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 3, no. 9, September, 1911 pp. 1-18.

The Methods Of The United States Steel Corporation For The Commercial Sampling And Analysis Of Pig Iron, 1912, pp. 1-34.

Determination Of Carbon In Steel By The Direct Combustion Method, reprinted from the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 6, No. 10, page 843, October, 1914.

The Methods Of The United States Steel Corporation For The Commercial sampling And Analysis Of Iron Ores, 1914, pp. 1-62.

Folder 2: Article and Obituaries, 1916-1923

The Methods Of The United States Steel Corporation For The Commercial sampling And Analysis Of Coal, Coke, And By-Products, 1916, pp. 1-91.

Obituary, published in South Works Review, Vol. X, No. 5, May 1923, p. 13, photo on p. 12.

Obituary, published in Daily Calumet, April 24, 1923.

Newspaper clipping, E. J. Buffington Will Attend The Brady Funeral, published in Daily Calumet, April 25, 1923. (E. J. Buffington was president of the Illinois Steel Company at the time).