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This is the family of George Roy Millsop & his wife, Mary M argaret (McCormick) Millsop. Top row, left to right: Willia m "Will" Millsop , Isabella "Bella" (Millsop) Hughey, Jame s & Robert Millsop. Front row, left to right: Thomas Charle s Fermont "Mont" Millsop, George Roy Millsop Sr., Thomas "E lliott" Millsop, Mary Margaret (McCormick) Millsop holdin g baby, Viola M. (Millsop) Hunt & George Roy "Pud" Millso p Jr., Elliott Millsop grew up to be the President of Weirt on Steel and twice Mayor of Weirton, Brooke County W.Va. Vi ola Millsop was born in 1890 which make this photo over 10 0 years old. Cover of LIFE magazine

National Steel Corp.'s Chairman Ernest Tener Weir is stron g for hardboiled, hard-driving executives who, like himself , got their higher education at an open-hearth furnace, no t in a classroom. Long has he had his eye on Thomas E. Mill sop, who was holding down a job in a steel mill at 15. Las t week Mr. Weir upped redhaired, jut-jawed, Steelman Millso p to the presidency of his Weirton Steel Co., making him, a t 37, the youngest chief executive in the business. Steelma n Millsop quit an open-hearth job to spend three years a s a combat pilot with the Canadian and U. S. air forces. Af ter the War, he barnstormed for a while as a stunt flyer, l ater returned to steel in the blast-furnace department of Y oungstown Sheet & Tube. After a few months he moved over t o drive rivets for Standard Tank Car Co., shortly shot up t o the production manager's desk. Ten years ago Steelman Millsop marched into the office of S teelman Weir, demanded a salesman's job at a fancy figure . Mr. Weir laughed. But the young man's rapid-fire self-sal es-talk continued until Steelman Weir cried: "You've sold y ourself to me." Following week, the new Weirton salesman br ought in a $1,000,000 order. On the road for the next few y ears, he assiduously read Gideon Bibles in hotels, sold s o much steel that in 1929 he was made assistant sales manag er, later assistant to the president, finally vice presiden t. Forthright, aggressive Mr. Millsop has been in actual ch arge of Weirton since last summer, when the late Presiden t John C. Williams became fatally ill. A good mixer, Weirto n's best labor handshaker, President Millsop likes ancien t history, sports, goes to company baseball games in his sh irtsleeves. See attached sources. (Research):Thomas Elliot Millsop, became head of National S teel in the US.

Time magazine 27/3/1964

AFTER quitting school in the eighth grade and bouncing arou nd as a stunt pilot, semipro baseball player and riveter, T homas Elliott Millsop landed a salesman's job at Weirton St eel in 1927. His first week there he astounded everyone b y writing a $1,000,000 order. This persuasive salesman is n ow the chairman of Weirton's parent, National Steel, and ha s built it into the nation's fourth largest steelmaker, wit h 1963 sales of $846 million. Last week he announced that N ational will build the world's first mill containing all th ree of the industry's major new devices for producing mor e steel at lower cost: oxygen furnaces, continuous castin g lines and vacuum degassers (for removing impurities). A t 65, Tom Millsop drives himself like a youngster. Cigar-ch omping, occasionally tobacco-chewing and always gregarious , he is Tom to most of his workers. Some years ago he moonl ighted as mayor of Weirton, W. Va., defeating a former unio n organizer by a 5-to-l margin. "That was a helluva job," h e grins. "All things considered, I'd rather build an eight- inch cold-strip mill."

Political Graveyard Wirteup 2009 Weirton, West Viginia

Millsop, Thomas Elliott (1898-1967) - also known as Thoma s E. Millsop - of Weirton, Hancock County, W.Va. Born in Sh aron, Mercer County, Pa., December 4, 1898. Republican. Ser ved in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; steel exec utive; mayor of Weirton, W.Va., 1947-55; candidate for Pres idential Elector for West Virginia, 1948; delegate to Repub lican National Convention from West Virginia, 1952. Member , American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Elks; Freemaso ns; Shriners; Lions; Moose; Eagles. The Thomas E. Millsop C ommunity Center in Weirton is named for him. Died Septembe r 12, 1967. Burial location unknown.

1942 West Virgina University Writeup

Weirton Steel Company's president, Thomas E. Milisop, is on e of the youngest men in the United States to head a majo r steel company. His career in the steel industry started w hen he was a boy just out of school and, except for the per iod of his mili- tary service during the first World War, h e has never been away from it. In addition, Mr. Milisop ha s had experience in every branch of the steel business. I n the actual production of steel, he has worked in the mill , been a salesman, a sales executive, a production executiv e and an administrator. He has also been connected with a r aw materials supplier and a steel fabricating firm. Mr. Mil isop Is 48 years old, having been born on December 4, 1898 , In Sharon, Pa. At the age of 15, he started to work a s a laborer in the open hearth department of the Carnegie S teel Company at Sharon. This was followed by open hearth jo bs with the same company at Farrell, Pa., then with the Ame rican Steel Foundry at Sharon. When the United States decla red war on Germany, Mr. Milisop enlisted In the U. S. Marin e Corps. He served as a flier until he was mustered out I n May 1919. Later in that year he returned to Sharon and we nt to work as a riveter with +he Standard Tank Car Company . He remained with this company for five years and was prom oted successively to foreman, assistant purchasing agent an d purchasing agent. In July 1924, he entered the scrap busi ness with the Rotter-Spear Company of Cleveland, Ohio, wher e he remained for a year and a half, leaving to return to t he Standard Tank Car Company as production manager. Mr. Mil isop first became connected with the Weirton Steel Compan y on December I, 1927 as a salesman. Pro- gressively, he be came assistant sales manager, assistant to the president an d vice president. In June 1936, following the death of th e late John C. Williams, Mr. Milisop was elected presiden t of the company. In addition to Weirton Steel Company, Mr . Milisop Is an executive of a number or other related comp anies. He is vice president and director of the National St eel Corporation, and president and director of Weirton Impr ovement Company, Weirton Coal Company, Oak Hill Supply Comp any and the National Steel Products Company of Hous- ton, T exas. He also is director of the Federal Reserve Bank, Four th District, Cleveland, Ohio; a member of the American Iro n and Steel Institute, and a trustee of Bethany College. Un der the leadership of Mr. Milisop the Weirton Steel Compan y made a distinguished record in World War II. The Compan y and Its employees stepped far outside the Industry durin g the war to process magnesium, brass, silver chlo- ride, e ight-inch howitzer shells and atomic bomb material after ma ny other companies either refused to attempt the projects o r had failed in their attempts. Weirton employees, who di d not lose one minute of production time in all of World Wa r II, made war steel in record-breaking tonnages. The compa ny and its employees won three bestowals of the Army-Navy P roduction Award - the "E" Flag with two silver stars. Othe r honors conferred included the Navy Ordinance Developmen t Award. It Is with pride in a distinguished citizen of ou r State and Nation that we honor Thomas Elliott Milisop.