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 . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, 183. TOWNSEND, Edward Y., merchant and man-yiacturer, was born at West Chester, Pa., Oct. 4,1824, the son of John and Sybilla (Price) was the fif
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 . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, 183. TOWNSEND, Edward Y., merchant and man-yiacturer, was born at West Chester, Pa., Oct. 4,1824, the son of John and Sybilla (Price) was the fifth in line of descent from Joseph1 ownsend, who came to America soon after the ar-rival of William Penn, and purchased a large tractof land ill Pennsylvania, on partof which the town of West Clies-ter is built. He left school ateighteen to enter the wholesaledry-goods house of Wood, Abbott& Co., of Philadelphia. As thisfirm had a large and profitabletrade in the South and West, made many businessjourneys for them on horsebackand alone through the frontier,going as far West as Santa Fe,N. M. Being a young man ofmuch energy, and possessing ad-mirable traits of character, he wassoon taken into partnership withhis firm, which w^as then Wood,Bacon & Co. He continued withthem until the acquisition of alarge interest in the Cambria Iron company at Johns-town, Pa., by the senior member, Richard D. Wood,and his brother, Char
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