The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . t in America. Incarrying on the extensive work at this yard he em-ployed over 1,500 men turning out immense en-gines for the steam-ram Dunderberg, for the gun-boat Winooski, the .s
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . t in America. Incarrying on the extensive work at this yard he em-ployed over 1,500 men turning out immense en-gines for the steam-ram Dunderberg, for the gun-boat Winooski, the .steam-frigate Neshaning, andthe mammoth steamboats, Bristol and Providence,all of which were the largest built in the UnitedStates. In 1868 his business had attained such largeproportions that to accommodate the increasing de-mands upon him he bought the Morgan Ironworks,an immense establishment in New York, and soonafterward the Neptune, the Franklin Forge and theAllaire works, and in 1871 the shipyards at Chester,Pa. He added heavily to the Chester plant, erectinga rolling mill and blast-furnaces, and providingevery facility for building a ship out of the ore andthe timber. His immense plant covered a large areaof ground, and was valued at $2,000,000, under thename of the Delaware River Iron Ship-Building andEngine Works, of which Mr. Roach was the princi-pal owner, and whei-e he built a large percentage of. the iron vessels now flying the American flag; Thebulk of his business was for private parties and largecorporations, and for these he built 114 vessels. Theversatility of his genius was shown in his designing andbuilding the steam-yacht Viking, afterward ownedby Samuel J. Tilden, and the Utowana, which wonthe Lunburg cup in 1885. His first governmentwork was the building of one pair of the large enginesdesigned for naval ships of the Wampanoag class,and the engines for two ships of the Guerriere class,the hulls of each being constructed in the govern-ment yards, and the
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