Obituary. [Volume: 8, Issue: 1, 1888, pp. 19-20]

CHARCOAL IRON WORKERS.

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Obituary.
For the first time in the history of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers, the members mourn the loss of a
presiding officer, Samuel Noble, president of the association, died
August 13, 1888, at Anniston, Alabama, aged 54 years.
It has been our pleasure to know Mr. Noble for years, and it
was with no small degree of gratification that we looked forward
to the annual meeting of the association at which he was to preside,
and which he desired held at Anniston, Alabama, for the success
and advancement of which he had worked so zealously. We had
arranged to visit Anniston in advance of the meeting, to confer
with Mr. Noble as to the plans for the enjoyment of the members.
But he has been summoned hence and we may well mourn his loss,
remembering his universal courtesy and kindness and recalling
what he accomplished while with us.
No marble or granite shaft is necessary as a memorial to him.
Anniston is the monument to Samuel Noble, a monument which
will continue to grow in beauty and importance and be sufficient
not only for his memory but for those who were associated with
him in its enterprises, and who shared with him the burden of its
development. Few men have passed away whose loss has been
so keenly felt by his neighbors, for we learn that at his death
nearly every business house in the beautiful city of Anniston
was draped in mourning and on the day of his funeral business
was suspended in furnaces, shops, stores and mills, the population
attending the obsequies en masse. May his memory long remain
fresh with his neighbors who knowing him best esteemed him
most.
Mr. Noble was a native of Cornwall, England, born in 1834, he
came to America when but three years of age, residing with his
parents in Pennsylvania until 1855, when the family moved to
Rome, Georgia, where the father and sons established an iron
foundrv and machine shop.
In 1873 Mr. Samuel Noble, associated with General Tyler, of
Connecticut, built the pioneer blast furnace stack of the Wood