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Berwind Corporation (previously also known as Berwind-White Coal Mining Company) is a large
Official Berwind Website
Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania Non-renewable resource companies established in 1886 Coal companies of the United States Real estate companies established in 1962 Companies based in Philadelphia
Berwind Corporation (previously also known as Berwind-White Coal Mining Company) is a large privately held
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...
American corporation historically involved in the coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Coal is formed when dea ...
industry. Today it is a diversified company involved in property leasing and ownership of unrelated businesses.
It began as a partnership of Edward Julius Berwind
Edward Julius Berwind (June 17, 1848 – August 18, 1936) was the founder of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company. He was head of the company from 1886 until 1930.
Early life
Berwind was born on June 17, 1848 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He w ...
, Charles Berwind, and Congressman Allison White
Allison White (December 21, 1816 – April 5, 1886) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
White was born in Pine Township, near Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. He attended the ...
and upon White's death became known as Berwind White Company in 1886. The company was one of the largest producers of coal at the turn of the twentieth century and created several towns in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including Windber, Pennsylvania
Windber is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, about south of Johnstown. It was at one time a place of industrial activities which included coal mining, lumbering, and the manufacture of fire brick. In 1897, the community ...
and Berwind, West Virginia. It was a litigant in two U.S. Supreme Court decisions: '' Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. v. Chicago & Erie R. Co.'', 235 U.S. 371 (1914) and ''McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.
''McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.'', 309 U.S. 33 (1940), is United States Supreme Court case upholding the legality under the Constitution's Commerce Clause of a tax by the City of New York upon the purchase of coal by public utility a ...
'', 309 U.S. 33 (1940). In 1962 the family corporation moved from directly producing coal to leasing its properties and diversification
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Biology and agriculture
* Genetic divergence, emergence of subpopulations that have accumulated independent genetic changes
* Agricultural diversification involves the re-allocation of some of a farm's resources to n ...
into ownership of other businesses, including Protective Industries (including Caplugs and Mokon) and, CRC Industries
CRC Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of industrial chemicals for maintenance and repair of marine, electrical, industrial, automotive and aviation equipment.
History
It was founded in 1958 after a verbal agreement between Rocket Che ...
. By 2007 the company's investments in real estate alone totaled over $3 billion. Berwinds founded the Wilmore Steamship Company
Wilmore Steamship Company was a steamship shipping company that was founded in New York City in 1930. The Wilmore Steamship Company mainly operated coal ships, called Collier ship. The coal ships main routes were loading coal at Hampton Roads, ...
in 1930.
Companies
Berwind Corporations companies: *Colorcon, pharmaceutical *CRC Industries, chemical *Maxcess, automation systems *Oliver, Healthcare packaging *Caplugs, plastic molding *TASI Group, test and measurement *Berwind Natural Resources Corporation (BNRC), land and resource management companySee also
*World War II United States Merchant Navy
World War II United States Merchant Navy was the largest civilian Navy in the world, which operated during World War II. With the United States fighting a world war in all the world oceans, the demand for cargo and fuel was very high. Cargo and ...
References
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Official Berwind Website
Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania Non-renewable resource companies established in 1886 Coal companies of the United States Real estate companies established in 1962 Companies based in Philadelphia