Morris Burke Belknap (the elder) (June 25, 1780 -July 26, 1877) was an early iron foundry owner and American industrialist and "one of the pioneers in development of the iron industry west of the Allegheny Mountains." In 1824 Morris married Phoebe Locke Thompson (1788-1873 and taught their son William Burke Belknap (1811-1889), also known as "William Burke Belknap, the elder, or W. B. Belknap," about the iron business. W. B. Belknap, the oldest of Morris and Phoebe's six children, by following his father's chosen industrial manufacturing and retail career became the founder of Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company in Louisville, Kentucky.
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