Papers, 1843-1885 [microform].

White, Charles L., 1920-

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Crellin family.

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The Crellin family came to America from Liverpool, U. K., where they had been middle-class tradesmen, in 1823. In the following year, they settled in the town of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. After their father's death in 1837, the two surviving sons, Thomas (b. Dec. 22, 1821-d. June 16, 1909) and John (b. June 19, 1823-d. Jan., 1885), entered the employment of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Thomas served in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment in the Mexican War, taking part in the siege of...

Lippincott, Charles L. (Charles Lawrence)

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Sayre, Robert H. (Robert Heysham), 1824-1907

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Civil engineer and railroad executive. Robert Heysham Sayre was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on October 13, 1824, and died in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1907. His father, William H. Sayre, brought the family to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania in 1829, where he became weighmaster for the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company. Like many company officials, he secured for his son an apprenticeship in the company's engineer corps, starting in 1840 when Ro...

Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad.

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Crellin, John, 1823-1885.

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Crellin, Elizabeth.

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Miller, James Patrick

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James Miller studied medicine under a Dr. Monro in 1820. From the description of James Miller fonds. ca. 1820. (Dalhousie University, Killam Memorial Library). WorldCat record id: 229205218 ...

Crellin, Thomas, 1821-1909.

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Packer, Asa, 1805-1879

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Pennsylvania. Militia. Light Infantry Regiment, 2nd

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Douglas, Edwin A., 1805-1859

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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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The surge of investment that filled the Anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s did not reach the Lehigh Valley until 1791 when coal was found near Summit Hill, west of Mauch Chunk, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mines Company. Coal was floated downriver on wooden rafts known as arks, which were dismantled and sold as lumber upon arrival. Flooding, shallow water and swift currents created financial problems for the company until Josiah White, familiar with ca...

Butler, Robert Olen.

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American writer Robert Olen Butler was born January 20, 1945 in the small steel-mill town of Granite City, Illinois. Planning to major in theatre, Butler enrolled at Northwestern University in 1963. He graduated with a B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) in June 1967 and attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, where he received an M.F.A. in playwriting in 1969. In 1971 he joined the army and spent a year serving in the Vietnam War. His experience in Vietnam was a strong influence in his novels. I...

Sayre, Francis Bowes, 1915-2008

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Clergyman. From the description of Invocation given by Francis Bowes Sayre, 1967 September. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980404 Episcopal clergyman. From the description of Papers, 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149476 Episcopal priest. From the description of Reminiscences of Francis Bowes Sayre, Jr. : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122564996 ...