. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . f the Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Com-pany. On the consolidation of this com-pany in 1899, with the East Lebanon Iron Company, J. H. Sternbergh & Son,and the Lebanon Iron Company, underthe new corporate name of the AmericanIron and Steel Manufacturing Company,he continued with this firm as its mana-ger, holding this position until 1907,when he was elected to the presidency ofthis great corporation. CHALFANT, George Alexander, Ironmaster, Financier. Pittsburgh, in this age of iron, is theseat of an empire more substantial thanthat of Greece
. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . f the Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Com-pany. On the consolidation of this com-pany in 1899, with the East Lebanon Iron Company, J. H. Sternbergh & Son,and the Lebanon Iron Company, underthe new corporate name of the AmericanIron and Steel Manufacturing Company,he continued with this firm as its mana-ger, holding this position until 1907,when he was elected to the presidency ofthis great corporation. CHALFANT, George Alexander, Ironmaster, Financier. Pittsburgh, in this age of iron, is theseat of an empire more substantial thanthat of Greece or Rome, but the primarysource of her supremacy is her superiorbrain-power. She is a city of practicalthinkers—men of the type of the lat<George Alexander Chalfant, of thefamous old firm of Spang, Chalfant &Company, ami for a third of a centuryprominently identified with the politicaland financial interests of the Iron Chalfant, founder of the Ameri-can branch of this old and highly re-spected family, came to Pennsylvania in14 I. ^^ Z^ss^- A- ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY the Welcome with William Perm, andwas given a deed for six hundred andforty acres of land in Chester was about 1682, and in 1699 hesettled on a tract of land of two hundredand fifty acres in Rockland Manor, inthe same county, obtaining a warrant forit October 22, 1701. John Chalfant diedin August, 1725, leaving two sons, Johnand Robert. John (2), son of John Chalfant, mar-ried, and among other children had threesons: John, Solomon, and Robert. Robert, son of John (2) Chalfant, mar-ried Ann, daughter of John and MaryBentley, of Newton. Chester county, andtheir children were: John, mentionedbelow; Mary, Jane, Ann, Robert, andElizabeth. John, son of Robert and Ann (Bent-ley) Chalfant, married and had one son,Henry, mentioned below. Henry, son of John (3) Chalfant, mar-ried, August 5, 1740, Eliza Jackson, andhad nine children, the eldest of whom,Jonathan, is mentioned below. Jonathan,
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