. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . rrangements were made with specialreference to convenience and facility in carrying onall its operations. This is both a custom and a flouring-mill. In ad-dition to the ordinary grades of flour, what are knownas Electric Light, Bonanza, and Henrys Fancybrands are here manufactured. The engine whichdrives the machinery is of eighty horse-power, with a Icapacity of increase to one hundred and twenty-five. The capacity of the mill is seven hundred and fiftybushels daily. State wheat is mostly used at thismill, though Western grain is brou
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . rrangements were made with specialreference to convenience and facility in carrying onall its operations. This is both a custom and a flouring-mill. In ad-dition to the ordinary grades of flour, what are knownas Electric Light, Bonanza, and Henrys Fancybrands are here manufactured. The engine whichdrives the machinery is of eighty horse-power, with a Icapacity of increase to one hundred and twenty-five. The capacity of the mill is seven hundred and fiftybushels daily. State wheat is mostly used at thismill, though Western grain is brought here in casesof emergency. The flour and feed manufactured here is sold atthe mill and at the store of the firm, and also along > the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Newporteast to Johnstown west. Samuel Eichelberger Henry, second son of JohnHenry, was born in Frankstown, Blair Co., Pa., , 1820. In 1826 his father moved to McKees Gap,and in 1827 to Hollidaysburg; then to New ry; andin the spring of 18 lo he rcmoM d to I)un( HENRY & Co During the yeai^ 18,30, ls31, 1S32, \oung SamuelE. Henry was employed on what is known as the OldPortage Railroad, in driving a one-horse cart, besidesacting in the capacity of gigger boss (a term nowobsolete) in the summer, and attending school in thewinter, his tuition amounting to three cents per 1832 he assisted in laying the railroad track aroundthe curve a mile west of Hollidaysburg. This workwas done on the night of July 3d, to enable passen-gers to pass over the road to Hollidaysburg to attend acelebration on Independence-day. They cut the railsin short pieces instead of bending them for the Henry was a passenger on the John Blair, thefirst canal-boatthatentered theport of 1834 he engaged with Capt. John Bowers as a canal-driver, when the small one-horse ITnion boats were runfrom Hollidaysburg to Philadelphia. These boats wereused for carrying Allegheny Mountain coal to Phil
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