was somewhat alleviated by the fact that another Roach company, the Standard Steel Casting Company, had recently begun production. Delays in production of the steel along with additional unexpected delays prolonged construction of the ships past the 1884 Presidential election, and by the time Roach was ready to deliver the first ship, Dolphin, the new Democrat administration of Grover Cleveland, who became President on March 4, 1885, hostile to the staunchly Republican Roach, had assumed office. In what many regarded as a politically motivated act, the new Cleveland administration found reasons to void Roach's contract for Dolphin. With another three Navy ships still unpaid for in his shipyard whose contracts might also be declared void, Roach was unable to secure loans to continue his business and was forced into receivership. In the subsequent liquidation of assets, the Chester Rolling Mill along with the rest of Roach's companies, with the exception of his Chester shipyard and the Morgan Iron Works in New York, were sold to pay off creditors. Later history After selling their shares in the company, Roach and his sons resigned from their positions in February 1886, and the Chester Rolling Mill appears to have been taken over by Roach's former partner Samuel A. Crozer, who became the company's new President. In 1890, the Mill was purchased by Samuel Taylor Wellman, becoming part of the Wellman Steel Company. This venture proved unsuccessful, and Wellman dispensed with his holdings in about 1896. Footnotes References Ashmead, Graham Henry (1884): History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, L. H. Everts & Co., Pennsylvania. Bergland, Abraham (1907): The United States Steel Corporation: A Study of the Growth and Influence of Combination in the Iron and Steel Industry, Columbia University Press, New York. Dodge, Grenville M. and Ellis, William Arba (1911): Norwich University 1819-1911: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor, Volume 2, Capital City Press, Vermont. Field, James Alfred; Marshall, Leon Carroll; Wright, Chester Whitney (1913): Materials For the Study of Elementary Economics, University of Chicago Press. Swann, Leonard Alexander Jr. (1965): John Roach, Maritime Entrepreneur: the Years as Naval Contractor 1862–1886 — United States Naval Institute (reprinted 1980 by Ayer Publishing, ). Tyler, David B. (1958): The American Clyde: A History of Iron and Steel Shipbuilding on the Delaware from 1840 to World War I, University of Delaware Press (reprinted 1992, ). Chester, Pennsylvania John Roach & Sons Industrial buildings and structures in