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Welcome to the Despard Home page. The Despard Home page provides as much information as possible on Despard. Knowing Despard’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Despard’s Home page, you will also find Despard’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Despard has a population of 1169. 51.6% of Despard’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.4 are female. 33.7% of Despard is married and 45.8% own their own home. Household median income in Despard is $32,768, and the individual median income is $19,609. Despard’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.8%), Multiple(7.2%).


In July 1901, the Jackson Sheet and Tin Plate Company, capitalized at $300,000, was incorporated by Ingraham Grove of Cleveland; C.C. Moore of Columbus, and T.M. Jackson, C.S. Sands, Fleming Howell and L.S. Hornor of Clarksburg.It was sold (new, never operated) at bankruptcy auction to Pittsburgh partners, James R.


Phillips and Ernest T. Weir, and the name was changed to Phillips Sheet & Tinplate Co.. One month after operations began, senior partner J. R. Phillips was killed in a train wreck, when the Pullman sleeper he was resting in on a siding was struck by a passing train. Either the sleeper car had not been completely onto the siding or a load of steel on a passing freight car shifted.


Phillips secretary E. T. Weir then took the helm of the company and tinmill became the first Weirton Steel Company. Summit Park, also called Greektown or especially Tinplate and Tin Plate, was in the area. It was the community of many immigrant Greeks and other nationalities, who had been recruited to work as tin workers at Weirton Steel Mill.


Weirton Steel closed its gates in October 1936. The buildings were then occupied by other manufacturing firms.


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