. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . y, where bothhimself and wife died. Jacob M. Haldeman, second son of John and Mary(Breneman) Haldeman, obtained a good English andGerman education under the private instruction of anEnglish officer, and seemingly inherited practical ideasfrom his father. At the age of nineteen he was senton horseback by his father to Pittsburgh, making hisjourney through many Indian settlements, to pur-chase flour to send down the river in flat-boats to NewOrleans. About 1806, assisted by hi
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . y, where bothhimself and wife died. Jacob M. Haldeman, second son of John and Mary(Breneman) Haldeman, obtained a good English andGerman education under the private instruction of anEnglish officer, and seemingly inherited practical ideasfrom his father. At the age of nineteen he was senton horseback by his father to Pittsburgh, making hisjourney through many Indian settlements, to pur-chase flour to send down the river in flat-boats to NewOrleans. About 1806, assisted by his father, he purchasedthe water-power and forge at the mouth of YellowBreeches Creek and established himself in the ironbusiness. He added a rolling- and slitting-mill,and by his energy and industry soon became one ofthe foremost iron manufacturers iu the State. Hissuperior iron found steady* market, and upon the es-tablishment of the arsenal at Harpers Ferry he sup-plied the government with iron, especially during thewar of 1812-14, which he forwarded across the SouthMountain on muleback to the Ferry, where it was. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 499 manufactured into guns, many of which may be seento-day, stamped 1812. At that time he foundedHaldemanstown, now called New Cumberland, atthe junction of the creek and river, and it may behere remarked that it had been one of the points inquestion in the Congress at New York as the pro-posed site of the national capital, and he also built asaw-mill and grist-mill at the same place. Following the war of 1812, during the depression,he invested largely in farms and real estate, and en-gaged in the management of the same, a business sovaried and large as to require his constant attention,and he managed it all without the aid of an assistantor clerk. In 1830 he removed to Harrisburg andpurchased a residence built by Stephen A. Hills,architect of the capitol building, on Front Street, onthe bank of the Susquehanna, where he continued toreside unt
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