Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . tree whichhad been uprooted and blown over. In theexcavation he discovered what he thoughtto be a peculiar kind of rock, and takinga piece showed it to one of his neighbors,Thomas Wise, who investigated and foundit to be hard coal. As the land on whichit was found belonged to the government,Mr. Wise entered it and afterward purchasedthe same, but did not have the means to de-velop the property and afterward sold it toa company, who founded the present LehighCoal Company. At the breaking out o
Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . tree whichhad been uprooted and blown over. In theexcavation he discovered what he thoughtto be a peculiar kind of rock, and takinga piece showed it to one of his neighbors,Thomas Wise, who investigated and foundit to be hard coal. As the land on whichit was found belonged to the government,Mr. Wise entered it and afterward purchasedthe same, but did not have the means to de-velop the property and afterward sold it toa company, who founded the present LehighCoal Company. At the breaking out of theRevolutionary war, Philip Cinder was oneof the first to shoulder a musket and go tothe defense of the colonies, serving through-out the entire eight years of the war. Jacob Cinder, the father of our subject,was born in Pennsylvania, in 1780, and fol-lowed the occupations of a farmer and mill-stone cutter. He was a soldier of the warof 1812, and fought under Ceneral Jack-son in the battle of New Orleans. On re-ceiving his discharge he resumed farming inCarbon county, Pennsylvania, where he re-. *^
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