Humbert Tin Plate Company

HUMBERT

JAN

2

1899 

TIN PLATE CO.

George J. Humbert

From The Progressive Men of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1899 and its biography of George J. Humbert, builder and owner of the Humbert Tin Plate Company:

The Humbert Tin Plate Company has from the start had a market for all its product.  Its brand, "Humbert," is a favorite everywhere.  It was the first American tin-plate company to break down the barrier the Welsh tin-plate manufacturers had built up on the Pacific Coast.  It began to ship its plates there in trial lots.  Purchasers soon discovered that they were actually superior to the Welsh plates.  The "Humbert" captured the market in a brief time.  In 1898 the association of capitalists to control the American tin-plate industry began to take shape.  George J. Humbert had demonstrated his genius for organization.  These men of millions called him into their councils.  Finally, in February, 1899, at Chicago, the great scheme of consolidating the tin-plate mills of America was consumated.  Mr. Humbert, the chief owner of one of the finest mills in America, was a factor in that great deal.  The consolidated company, obnoxiously known as the Tin Plate Trust, is the "American Tin Plate Company", incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with a capital stock of $50,000,000.  It includes 380 mills, all the mills in the United States except one.  The capitalization of the separate mills was enormously increased before the sell-out to the combine, the stock of the Humbert mill rating with the highest.

The American Tin Plate Company would be merged into US Steel.