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Dennis Long was born in Londonderry (inside the gates), Ireland, in 1816, and came to this country with his parents in 1820. They settled in Erie, Pa., and then moved to Pittsburgh, where Dennis Long was apprenticed to the trade of molder. After some years working at his trade in Pittsburgh, he moved to Louisville, KY. and founded the Dennis Long and Company, a corporation which manufactured cast iron pipe. He and his wife are buried in Cave Hill Cemetery 451-5630 SECTION 5 Lot 3-S1/2.

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Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1953
Name: Dennis Long
Death Date: 8 Oct 1893
Age: 77
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Birth Date: abt 1816

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Mr. DENNIS LONG AND COMPANY is a corporation which manufactures cast iron pipe. The company was incorporated January 2, 1878, with the following officers: Dennis Long, President; Samuel A. Miller, Vice-Président ; Dennis M. Long, Superintendent ; George J. Long, Secretary and Treasurer. The offices are still filled by these gentlemen. The business founded by Mr. Long had steadily increased until the formation of this company and has continued to increase, from time to time requiring extensive enlargements of the company's works. It has recently completed and is now operating a large pipe foundry near the intersection of Preston and Fulton streets, constituting a part of what are known as the "upper works." Before making this last addition DENNIS LONG AND COMPANY was offered very considerable inducements—donations of land and favorable freight rates—if it would locate the new pipe foundry in some one of the principal manufacturing cities of the South, among them notably Chattanooga and Birmingham ; but the advantages offered by Louisville were so manifest that the company decided to build here. The several foundries owned by the company now have a capacity of 250 tons a day. The works are devoted exclusively to the manufacture of cast iron pipe and special castings necessary therefor. The corporation numbers on its payroll over five hundred employes and sends its product as far west as the Pacific coast, all through the North-west, throughout the South and South-west, and east into Pennsylvania. This business has been slowly since 1863, when Mr. Long ceased making steamboat machinery}- and began making cast iron pipe exclusively. Long was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1816, and came to this country with his parents in 1820. They settled in Erie, Pa., and then moved to Pittsburgh, where Dennis Long was apprenticed to the trade of molder. After some years work at his trade in Pittsburgh, Mr. Long moved to Louisville, and his first day's work in this city was at a foundry on Ninth street, on a site where are located DENNIS LONG AND COMPANY'S general offices and what are called "the Ninth street works." Some years later Mr. Long formed a partnership with Mr. Bryan Roach and the firm of Roach & Long DENNIS LONG. engaged in business on this Ninth street site, where they devoted themselves chiefly to the building of steamboat machinery. They made the machinery for many noted steamers. In 1860 the water works of this citv were projected and the contract for the immense Cornish pumping engines was awarded to Roach & Long. At that time the making of such engines was a work of great magnitude and risk. Mr. Roach was accidentally killed and all the responsibility of the contract fell upon Mr. Long. He built the engines and to-day they are furnishing Louisville her entire water supply. About 1863 Mr. Long began, on his own account, the manufacture of cast iron pipe. His foundry then had a capacity of only ten or fifteen tons a day.

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Researched by Laura J. Stewart (#47412616)
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