Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . whose ter- minal boundary line lies hid in the Centennial exhibition had somethingto do with hastening this period by someyears. The hundreds from the county whovisited that great exhibition and witnessedthe wonderful exhibits in every departmentof industry, came back with new ideas ofprogress whose consummation, aided byimproved labor-saving machinery, hasplaced Montgomery
Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with an introductory historical sketch . whose ter- minal boundary line lies hid in the Centennial exhibition had somethingto do with hastening this period by someyears. The hundreds from the county whovisited that great exhibition and witnessedthe wonderful exhibits in every departmentof industry, came back with new ideas ofprogress whose consummation, aided byimproved labor-saving machinery, hasplaced Montgomery in the front rank of theprogressive counties of the state. Tasteful residences and beautiful farms,fine school buildings and splendid churchedifices, good roads, first-class railways andelectric street cars are distinguishing fea-tures of the progressive present ; whilethe full development and the ultimatesupremacy of its greatest inventions willonly be attained in the twentieth Cen-tury, when the present railways may besucceeded by air ship lines that have suc-cessfully solved the problem of aerial nav-igation. CHAPTER III. LEADING INDUSTRIES. IRON MANUFACTURE—TEXTILE FABRICS—PAPER-MINOR IGRICULTURE is the earliestand main occupation of apeople during a pioneer period,and the first developed in-dustry of the mineral countiesof Pennsylvania was the man-ufacture of Manufacture. — In Montgomerycounty iron-works were established at ValleyForge as early as 1750. These works wereburned by the British in 1777, and newworks were afterward built by the Pottsfamily. Other iron works were erected inthe county, but in 1820 there were only twoforges, two trip hammers and seven naileriesin Montgomery county. Sixty-four yearslater there were a large number of furnaces,rolling mills and steel works. The blast fur-naces were: Plymouth, built in 1843; Merionand Elizabeth furnaces, erected at West Con-shohocken, in 1847; Swede, 1850; WilliamPenn, 1854 ; Montgomery,
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