Episcopal High School - Whispers Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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39 .1 V, 5 4. if -j ' ,,A .. ... g g .. . f- . 5-' '- f- 15- se: :s qr f, -' ' , f f f 1 ' a'fiffa,,., ' 5 a r .N . I - .. Q . I Fw, ,,, I is ,- . v f ff ae at JOHN CAMPBELL GREENWAY OHN CAMPBELL GREENWAY was born in Huntsville, Alabama, july 6th, 1872, the son of Gilbert C. Greenway, a native of Abingdon, Virginia, and Alice White Greenway, who came from Richmond, Kentucky. His early years were spent in Arkansas, the home of his parents. He was the second of five brothers, all students at the Episcopal High School of Virginia. Entering in the fall of 1887 at the age of fifteen, he remained here three years. He played on the football and base- ball teams for three years and was a monitor his last year. He was a student at the University of Virginia the vear '90-'91 where he was a member of the football and baseball teams. Deciding to study engineering he entered Yale in the fall of 1892 after spending a year in preparation at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Here and at Yale he played end on the football team and caught on the baseball team. Hinkey and Greenway were recognized as names of outstanding ends through- out intercollegiate circles and Carter and Greenway were said to have formed the greatest of Yale batteries of all time. After graduation he entered the service of the Carnegie Steel Company, working as a day laborer in the mill at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, in order to learn the business. Wlien the Spanish War began in 1898 he enlisted in Roosevelt's Rough Riders. ln his book Rough Riders Colonel Roosevelt said of him: A strapping fellow, entirely fearless, modest and quiet with the ability to take care of the men under him so as to bring them to the highest point of soldierly perfection, and to be counted upon with absolute certainty in every emergencyg not only doing his duty, but always on the watch to find some new duty which he could construe to be his, ready to respond with eagerness to the slightest suggestion of doing something, whether it was dangerous or merely difiicult and laborious. From 1901 until 1906 Greenway was amistant superintendent of mines for the United States Steel Corporation at lshpeming, Michigan. From 1906-1910 he was general superintendent of the Oliver Mining' Company on the Mesaba Range, lVIinnesota. During this period he built the town of Coleraine, Minnesota, and patented a log turbine for the working of iron ore, an important invention in this industry. ln 1910 he was called to Arizona as general manager of the Calumet and Arizona Copper Company where he made his home until his death in 1926. ln 1915 his company purchased the New Cornelia Copper Company, the oldest incorporated copper company in the State of Arizona but long inactive and never developed be- cause of the low grade ore. This property lay -in the desert 50 miles from the nearest railroad and consisted of only a few huts occupied by Mexicans. Greenway took the lead in applying a chemical process to the refinement of the low grade ore and as soon as this was proven practical, he built the modern mining town of Ajo with hospital and school, attractive sanitary houses for laborers beautified with How- ering desert plants, and connected his town with the Southern Pacific railroad. Eight