F. Peter Ambrosiani Mining Contacts

Collection — sc_box: MS 4, Folder: 11-12

Identifier: MS-753

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Contacts, undated, of F. Peter Ambrosiani, a professional mining engineer and 1938 graduate of the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan. Includes a notebook with handwritten entries for mining companies of Michigan's Upper Peninsula primarily with their chief officers, superintendents, engineers and agents listed. Probably associated with Ambrosiani's job with Jeffrey Manufacturing Company where he was the sales manager for the Western Mining Territories.

Dates

undated

Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

F. Peter Ambrosiani was born in 1915 in Poughkeepsie, New York and attended high school in Onieda, New York. In 1938 he graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mining Engineering. He was a registered professional engineer in Ohio and West Virginia where he was president of Industrial Welding Company in Beckley, West Virginia and its subsidiary, the Axidyne Fan Company. He was previously employed by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company where he was the manager of Western Mining Territories and Wilcox Manufacturing, manufacturers of continuous mining machines for thin vein coal seams where he was the general manager. Mr. Ambrosiani passed away in 1996.