. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . mained till1856, when he returned to the scenes of his boyhoodin Huntingdon County, where he has since resided. Honest industry being one of the cardinal princi-ples of his life, he was soon engrossed in business onhis own account, engaging in the mercantile business,manufacture and sale of lumber, brick, and other ma-terial, and in the mean time became the owner oflarge coal-fields in Clearfield County in this of his mercantile, lumber, brick, and otherinterests, he engaged with the United States govern-ment as one of
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . mained till1856, when he returned to the scenes of his boyhoodin Huntingdon County, where he has since resided. Honest industry being one of the cardinal princi-ples of his life, he was soon engrossed in business onhis own account, engaging in the mercantile business,manufacture and sale of lumber, brick, and other ma-terial, and in the mean time became the owner oflarge coal-fields in Clearfield County in this of his mercantile, lumber, brick, and otherinterests, he engaged with the United States govern-ment as one of the contractors in building locks onand im]iroving the Great Kanawha River, in WestVirginia, for the purpose of making that river one ofthe navigable water-ways of the country. From thattime to the present he has performed contract work,making stone-work a specialty, on several publicworks throughout the country, employing at timesfrom three hundred and fifty to four hundred men.^Ir. Hefright is held in high esteem by his townsmen, uf the public #/-^///^ %
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