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STRENGTH by ASSOCIATION

Published Thursday, May 01, 2003

In 1903 Teddy Roosevelt fathered the U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor, and Orville and Wilbur Wright sired the airplane. In 1903 the aggregate industry also had a birth of sorts. And like the department of labor and air travel, the industry's baby has changed a great deal during the past 100 years. Rock Products' founder and first editor, E.H. Defebaugh convinced 45 quarry owners to come to Chicago on May 19, 1903 for the first official meeting of the National Quarry Owners Association. Although many of the original members were from the Midwest, one member traveled from ...

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