Sloss Iron & Steel Company

Sloss Iron & Steel Company is a descendant of the Sloss Furnace Company which was founded by Colonel James Withers Sloss. The name was changed to Sloss Iron & Steel Company in 1885 when Colonel Sloss retired and sold the company to a group of Alabama and Virginia investors represented by Hugh Morrow.

The company was reorganized again in 1902 as Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company when it acquired the assets of Sheffield Iron Company of Sheffield, Alabama, which included blast furnaces at Sheffield and Florence, ore fields in Franklin County and coal properties in Walker County. Morrow was again involved in a transaction involving the company when, as a member of the board of U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company, he oversaw the merger of the two companies in 1952.