Jefferson Machine Works manufactured steam engines, patent bolt and nut machines, patent pipe cutting machines, hand and slide lathes, and planing and drilling machines. The proprietor in 1870 was William Kenyon, who had a distinguished career as a machinist in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA, before settling in Steubenville in 1842.

Information Sources

• Wiggins and Weavers Directory of Steubenville, Wellsville, East Liverpool and Wellsburgh, 1870, Pg. 64.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1877, Pg. 3.

  Mr. William Kenyon, an old Philadelphia manufacturing machinist, died at Steubenville day before yesterday. Mr. Kenyon came to this country from England in 1827. He engaged in business in Philadelphia with Matthew Baldwin [Mathias Baldwin], their first work being the building of the machinery of the present United States Mint in Philadelphia. They then built the old Ironsides, the first locomotive erected in this country. Mr. Kenyon then associated himself in business with Mr. Sellers, the father of the present William R. Sellers, of Philadelphia, and they put up the first machinery for paper manufacture in the United States. In 1835 he came to Pittsburg, and with Messrs. Bradbury, Adams and Livingston started the Pittsburg Novelty Works. Afterward he went to Steubenville and started the Jefferson Foundry and Machine Works, which has turned [out] many valuable inventions. Mr. Kenyon was recognized as one of the best thinkers on mechanical subjects in the West.