Balbach, Edward
smelter, refiner, inventor, was born March 19, 1804, in Germany. He patented a de-silverizing process, which has completely revolutionized the smelting of gold and silver in this country and in Europe, and which brought to his works a continual stream of consignments of gold and silver ores from all the western states and territories and Mexico, and afterward incorporated the business, with himself as president, as The Balbach Smelting and Refining Co. of Newark, N. J. He died Oct. 14, 1890.