District Energy Biographies John D. Walsh
ADSCO Advocate Vol 1, No. 5, 1927, p. 8.

John D. Walsh was closely associated with Birdsill Holly for nearly forty years.

Walsh was the son of a poor family. At the age of seventeen, Walsh enlisted and fought in the Civil War. He was wounded in action and honorably discharged at the end of the war, at which time he went to work for the Holly Manufacturing Company as an apprentice in the pattern department. After learning the trade he remained there for several years as a pattern maker.

Walsh helped Holly install his first district steam system in Holly's back yard during the summer of 1876, and became superintendent of the Holly Steam Combination Company.

In 1914 Walsh wrote "Reminiscence and the Early Day Struggle of Central Station Steam Heating," which will be added here in the near future.

ADSCO Advocate Vol 1, No. 5, 1927, p. 8-10.

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