History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . own account, employing ten hands. By 1850 he hadtliree hundred hands under him. In his entire establishment wasturned into a United States arsenal for the manufacture of arms andimplements of war, seven hundred men being employed. He turnedforty thousand Springfield muskets, over two hundred bronze cannon,hundreds of caissons and gun-carriages, and also a sea-going constructed the Ohio Mechanics Institute building, and to him theCincinnati Fire Department is indebte
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . own account, employing ten hands. By 1850 he hadtliree hundred hands under him. In his entire establishment wasturned into a United States arsenal for the manufacture of arms andimplements of war, seven hundred men being employed. He turnedforty thousand Springfield muskets, over two hundred bronze cannon,hundreds of caissons and gun-carriages, and also a sea-going constructed the Ohio Mechanics Institute building, and to him theCincinnati Fire Department is indebted for its efficient twenty years he was president of the Cincinnati Fuel Company. he was chosen president of the Cincinnati and Covington BridgeCompany, and was also a director of the House of Refuge. In 18C9 liewas appointed a director of the Cincinnati Southern Eailway. In 1832lie married a Miss Hills. Two children of this marriage died in infancy,and their molher also died soon after. In 1S36 he married Miss PlicebeJ. Hopson, by whom he had ten children, seven of whom are COAL-MINING AND COKE MANUFACTURE. 245 Connellsville Gas-Coal Company built their ovens in ,1866. Watt, Taylor & Co. built forty ovens just be- ;low Watts Station in 1869. In the coke-works above named were nearly all the ovens in the Connellsvilleciikr region up to 1871, the last two named being all ithat were on the Fayette Branch until 1872, when IauU, Brown & Co. built one hundred ovens onJames Paulls place. There are some facts connected with the history ofcoal and coke production in Pennsylvania that arecurious as well as startling. Virginia produced coalyears before it was mined in Pennsylvania, and the latter State received coal from Virginia for manufac- these figures, startling as they are, and it is only byanother process of thought that it is possible to realizethe vast amount of coke produced in the Connellsvilleregion. Let us suppose that the entire product of
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