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 . 124 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. THOMAS, John, iron manufacturer, second sonof David Thomas, founder of tlie antliracite pig ironindustry of this country, was born at Yniscedwin,South
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 . 124 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. THOMAS, John, iron manufacturer, second sonof David Thomas, founder of tlie antliracite pig ironindustry of this country, was born at Yniscedwin,South Wales, Sept. 10, 1829, and at the age of tenyears came with his parents to Catasauqua, Pa.,where his youth was spent. He obtained his educa-tion at the Allentowu academy, and at Nazarethhall, a noted institution of learning at Nazareth, to acquire a thoroughknowledge of the manufacture ofiron in all its details, he first en-gaged in the business as an em-ployee in the blacksmith shopconnected with the Crane ironworks, of which his father wasthen superintendent. Having be-come familiar with that depart-ment, lie passed on to the ma-chine shops and the furnaces, andafter several yeais of faithful ser-vice in these departments, thepractical information lie thus ob-tained admirably fitted him to be-come superintendent of the Craneiron works in , when his fatherwithdrew from that position to or-ganize the Thomas iron compa
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