Balbach Smelting
Balbach may refer to: * Balbach Smelting & Refining Company, a former metal smelting plant in Newark, New Jersey, US * Oberbalbach ("Upper Balbach"), a district in Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Unterbalbach ("Lower Balbach"), a district in Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany People with the surname *Edward Balbach, Jr. (1839–1910), president of Balbach Smelting & Refining Company and inventor of the metallurgical "Balbach Process" *John Balbach (1820–1896), pioneering settler and prominent citizen of San Jose, California *Louis Balbach Louis James Balbach (May 23, 1896 – October 11, 1943) was an American diving (sport), diver who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born in San Jose, California, the son of Louis Augusta Balbach (1868-1908) and Nettie Viola (Bo ...

Balbach Smelting & Refining Company
Balbach Smelting & Refining Company (also known as Balbach and Sons Refining and Smelting Company) was a smelting plant in Newark, New Jersey operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the first commercial electrolytic refinery in the United States, and until its closure in the 1920s, it was the second largest metal processing enterprise in the United States. History The company president was Edward Balbach Jr., a metallurgist born in 1839 in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. He came to the United States in 1848 with his father Edward Balbach Sr. (1804–1890), who started the Balbach family fortune by collecting gold and silver dust from Newark jewelry shop floors, turning it into bullion. In 1865, Edward Balbach Jr. patented the "Balbach Process" which separated gold and silver from lead, which in 1872 evolved into something closely resembling the Parkes process, which had been developed earlier (1850) in England. In 1881, the Balbachs began to manufacture copper, jus ...
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Edward Balbach
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned. Peop ...
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John Balbach
John Balbach (February 13, 1820 - August 4, 1896) was a pioneering settler and prominent citizen of San Jose, California. As a blacksmith, he made the first commercially available metal plow on the west coast, in 1852. He was a founder of the San Jose Fire Department#Early History, San Jose Volunteer Fire Department. The Downtown "Balbach Street", that adjuncts Woz Way named for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, is named in his honor. Balbach has two commemorative plaques in the city, one installed by the Germania Verein (Club) on its 150th anniversary in 2006; and one by the larger German-American community, on Market South Street where his blacksmith shop was once located. Biography Balbach was born in Mergentheim, Mergentheim, Germany, on February 13, 1820. He arrived in New York in 1848. Shortly afterward he went to Harrisburg, Owen County, Kentucky, where he obtained employment in a carriage factory. On March 28, 1849, he and nine others started from Kentucky across the plains to ...
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