Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . LIBRARY At New Brighton, Staten Island VISIT TO RUSSIA IN 1872 going with me, but were detained by the childrens having whooping-cough. I arrived in St. Petersburg 6th May, and on the 17th con-cluded a contract with the agent of Countess Steinbock-Fermor forabout $5,000,000 of sheet-iron, to be delivered about $1,000,000 wortha year for five years. The countess was a cousin of Prince ancestor had been the blacksmith that worked with Peter theGreat at a forge, and had
Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . LIBRARY At New Brighton, Staten Island VISIT TO RUSSIA IN 1872 going with me, but were detained by the childrens having whooping-cough. I arrived in St. Petersburg 6th May, and on the 17th con-cluded a contract with the agent of Countess Steinbock-Fermor forabout $5,000,000 of sheet-iron, to be delivered about $1,000,000 wortha year for five years. The countess was a cousin of Prince ancestor had been the blacksmith that worked with Peter theGreat at a forge, and had been given a large estate at Ekaterinburgin the Ural, where there are large iron mines and mills. Near therethe family long continued to produce the only fine polished sheet-ironimported into the United States. We had heard that these workscontemplated making an exclusive contract for this polished sheet-iron for a term of five years. So I left New York secretly underpart of my name, as A. Greene, and concluded the contract beforethe arrival of a competitor, Mr. William Brandt Storer of Boston,who reached S
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