Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . rtheast corner of Smithfield streetand Fifth avenue. Rev. A. A. Pambing says that Joseph Smithand John Gormly were associated with Mr. McClurg in this en-terprise. They retired, however, before 1807. The enterprise wasstyled the Pittsburg foundry. On February 12, 1806, Joseph 375 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal McClurg advertised in the Commonwealth that the PittshiirgliFoundry is now complete. In 1812 it was converted hy into a cannon foundr\- and supplied the (lovernment withcannon, howitzers, shells, and halls. Commod
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . rtheast corner of Smithfield streetand Fifth avenue. Rev. A. A. Pambing says that Joseph Smithand John Gormly were associated with Mr. McClurg in this en-terprise. They retired, however, before 1807. The enterprise wasstyled the Pittsburg foundry. On February 12, 1806, Joseph 375 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal McClurg advertised in the Commonwealth that the PittshiirgliFoundry is now complete. In 1812 it was converted hy into a cannon foundr\- and supplied the (lovernment withcannon, howitzers, shells, and halls. Commodore Perrys fleet onLake Erie and General Jacksons army at New Orleans receivedtheir supplies of these articles in ])art from this foundry. In 1813there were two iron foundries in this city, AlcClurg-s and AnthonyBeelens, and one steel furnace, owned hy Tuper & McCowan. Inthe following- year there were two additional foundries. foundry was put in operation in November, 1810. An-thony Beelen, as well as George Anshutz, was a native of Arms, 1870 According- to Cramers Pittsburgh Almanac there werethree nail factories in Pittsburg in 1807, Porters, Sturgeons, andStewarts, which make about forty tons of nails yearly. In1810 about 200 tons ni cut and wrought nails were made at Pitts-burg. The condition of the iron industry at Pittsburg in 1810is thus summed up by a writer in The Navigator for 1811:The manufacture of ironmongery has increased in this place be-yond all calculation. Cut and wrought nails of all sizes are madein vast quantities, about, we think, 200 tons per year. Fireshovels, tongs, drawing knives, hatchets, two-feet squares, augers,chissels, adzes, axes, claw hammers, door hinges, chains, hackles,locks, door handles, spinning-wheel irons, ])lough irons, flat-irons,&c.; tons of these, together with a number of other articles in theiron wav, are exported annually. Abner Updegraff attempted themaking of files, which he finds he can do to advantage. He
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