. Contemporary American biography . u-factured for the Western market. About seven hundred and fifty men find steady employmentat the two establishments, and the various products of the two are shipped to all parts of thecountry and include many foreign markets. Medals of the first order have been awarded for the excellence of his goods wherever exhibited, notably at Philadelphia in 1876,at Chicago in 1883, at New Orleans in 1885, and at Paris in 1SS9. He has three exhibits atthe Columbian Exposition, the principal one in the Manufacturing Building, another in theTransportation B
. Contemporary American biography . u-factured for the Western market. About seven hundred and fifty men find steady employmentat the two establishments, and the various products of the two are shipped to all parts of thecountry and include many foreign markets. Medals of the first order have been awarded for the excellence of his goods wherever exhibited, notably at Philadelphia in 1876,at Chicago in 1883, at New Orleans in 1885, and at Paris in 1SS9. He has three exhibits atthe Columbian Exposition, the principal one in the Manufacturing Building, another in theTransportation Building, and a third in Machinery Building. Certain of his inventions patentedin foreign countries have attracted well-deserved attention, and he has been elected an honorarymember of the Academy of Inventors and Manufacturers, of Paris, and of the EuropeanScientific Society, of Brussels, Belgium. In 1862, Mr. Sternbergh married Miss Harriet , of Southbridge, Mass., by whom he had five children, three now surviving: Philip H.,. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 233 Herbert M., and Hattie May. By his second wife (formerly Miss Mary Candace Dodds, of NorthHero, Vt.), he has three children: two sons and a daughter. Mr. Sternbergh is a Eepublicanin politics, and a firm believer in the principles of that party. He is a Ruling Elder inthe First Presbyterian Church of Reading, and for eighteen years was Superintendent of itsSabbath School. He is also a Director of the Second National Bank of Reading, The Pennsyl-vania Investment Company City, Mo., and is President of the Kansas City Bolt andNut Company, founded by him in 1887. Regular and temperate in his habits, he has neverknown a sick day in his life, although he has been a hard and zealous worker for over fortyyears. He is public-spirited in the best sense of the word, and is actively interested in whatevertends to the moral and material advancement of the community wberein he has lived andlabored so long, and comman
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