[p. 499] manager of the Shenango
Works of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate Company, the largest tin mills
in the world, has been connected with the
New Castle plant since 1893. Mr. Pyle
was born at New Castle, Pa., May 29, 1870,
and is a son of Henry and Evaline (Pollock)
Pyle, old pioneers of Lawrence
County.
David S. Pyle obtained his education at New Castle, but left school in boyhood and after taking a course in bookkeeping and stenography took charge of that work for the Vulcan Iron Company and remained with that organization until 1891, when he entered the employ of the Pittsburg Iron and Steel Engineering Company. He served as foreman and general timekeeper but started in as one of the first employes, while the company was putting in the Bessemer plant for the Shenango Valley Steel Company at New Castle. From there he subsequently entered the employ of the New Castle Steel and Tin Plate Company, which was later absorbed by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company. He began before a wheel had been started in the mill and his rise was gradual but sure, becoming superintendent of the New Castle works, formerly known as the Greer Mill, and later district superintendent of the two New Castle tin mills and then of the Sharon works with offices in the Shenango mills. On July 1, 1908, he became manager of the great Shenango works, having hundreds of men under his supervision and machinery and equipments worth fortunes.
Mr. Pyle married Estella Sankey, who is a daughter of H. R. Sankey, an old family of New Castle, and they have one son, Harold S. Mr. Pyle is a Mason and he belongs also to the New Castle and to the Lawrence Clubs.
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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