. The old cannon foundry above Georgetown, and its first owner Henry Foxall . ith his somewhat contracted en-vironment. Accordingly we find that in 1794, in the full-ness of his manhood, he left Birmingham for Ireland,where he had the superintendency of some importantiron-works, near Dublin, and afterwards at Carrick-on-Shannon, and that in 1797, being still discontentedwith his condition, he left Ireland for the UnitedStates, landing in the city of Philadelphia, and goingat once into the business in which he had been broughtup. He had married in England, in 1780, his wife beingAnn Harwar
. The old cannon foundry above Georgetown, and its first owner Henry Foxall . ith his somewhat contracted en-vironment. Accordingly we find that in 1794, in the full-ness of his manhood, he left Birmingham for Ireland,where he had the superintendency of some importantiron-works, near Dublin, and afterwards at Carrick-on-Shannon, and that in 1797, being still discontentedwith his condition, he left Ireland for the UnitedStates, landing in the city of Philadelphia, and goingat once into the business in which he had been broughtup. He had married in England, in 1780, his wife beingAnn Harward, of Stourport, Worcestershire, a sweetChristian lady, and had no doubt accumulated a little * In the paper prepared by the grandson of Mr. Foxall, referred toin the preceding note, the statement is made that the parents of were zealous Church of England people, and that their childrenwere all baptized and brought up as Episcopalians. The further state-ment is made that the wife of Foxall was a pious Methodist, underwhose influence he became a member of that Portrait of Henry Fox all. Original Painting in Possession of Miss Osboro,Georgetown, D. C. The Foxall Cannon Foundry. 25 fortune out of the savings of his eighteen years ofsteady work, which was to be the basis of his busi-ness and the amassing of still greater wealth in theNew World. While in Philadelphia he had the mis-fortune to lose his wife by death. His partner in Phila-delphia, as has been before stated, was Robert Morris,Jr., son of the illustrious banker of that name, who,next to Washington, did more, perhaps, to bring suc-cess to the cause of the American colonies in the strug-gle for independence than any other man in the manufactory was called the Eagle Iron Works,wherein they did a general foundry and machine busi-ness; but their specialty was the making of cannonfor the War Department. They did not, however, re-main together very long. Foxall severed his connec-tion with Mor
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