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WILLIAM FLOYD, superintendent of steel-mills, post office Munhall, was born May 12, 1840, in Chester county, Pa. His great-grandfather was an English sea-captain, and a relative of William Floyd, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. George W. Floyd, the father of our subject, was a native of and a well-known resident and millwright of Chester county, Pa., and married Sarah. Leggett, who became the mother of nine children; her three sons were mechanics. In youth William learned the trade of blacksmith, at which he worked two years in Ohio. He then worked thirteen years for the Pennsylvania Steel company, at Steelton, where he had charge of the hammer department, but, his health failing, he went west to Michigan, and farmed a year. Later he worked two years in the steel mills at Joliet, Ill., and in September, 1881, came to Homestead, where he has held the position of superintendent of the steel mill ever since, and conducted the business intrusted to his care with commendable zeal and ability. At the outbreak of the civil war Mr. Floyd was the first to enter the ranks, enlisting April 16, 1861, in Co. A, 9th P. V. I. He afterward enlisted in Co. I, 201st P. V., in which he was second duty-sergeant, and participated in several engagements. Mr. Floyd is a member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 160, and of the Encampment, No. 10, at Harrisburg. He married Mary E. Powell, of Chester county, and they have one child, Georgia A.