[p. 933] who fills the important position of foreman in the hot mill department in the New Castle plant of the American Tin Plate Company, has been a resident of this city since July 15, 1868. He was born in Worcestershire, England.
At the age of ten years Mr. Felton entered the rolling mill and he has been identified with mill work almost continuously ever since. When he came to America he was an experienced worker and in the old New Castle iron mill he climbed from the lowest position to that of foreman for G. W. Johnson, and for two or three years was superintendent of the Johnson mill. Mr. Felton then came to the present plant as foreman of the hot mill department, his years of practical experience particularly fitting him for a place of responsibility.
In 1867 Mr. Felton was married to Miss Annie Bratt and they have had seven children, the four survivors being: Annie, who is the wife of John Sargent, a roller in the Shenango mill; Salena, who is the wife of Joseph McConnell, a salesman for Kraus Brothers, of Wheeling, W. Va.; Francis Joseph, who is chief chemist for the Pennsylvania Malleable Company, of McKeesport, Pa., and John M., who is rector of the Episcopal Church of Silver Creek, Neb. For many years Mr. Felton has been a vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church. Mrs. Felton is very active in the work of the Fifth Ward Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics Mr. Felton takes only a good citizen's interest, while his only fraternal connection is membership in the beneficiary order of the Protected Home Circle.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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