Records, 1848-1870.

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Records, 1848-1870.

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The records consist of two payroll sheets (1848) and 82 inbound letters, mostly from 1849-50. The letters are primarily operating reports from the superintendent of the Andover mine, but there are also some letters to Cooper & Hewitt from banks, suppliers, customers, other iron works, and from the Trenton Water Power Company, which supplied water power to the Trenton rolling mills.

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Cooper, Peter, 1791-1883

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Manufacturer, inventor, and philanthropist. From the description of Certification of Peter Cooper, 1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449909 American inventor and philanthropist. From the description of Letter signed : New York, to William C. Bryant, on behalf of The Citizens' Association of New York, 1867 Sept. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537867 Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the...

Cooper, Edward, 1824-1905

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Andover Iron Mine (Andover, N.J.).

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Trenton Water Power Company.

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Cooper & Hewitt.

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The partnership of Cooper ? blast furnaces at Philipsburg, N.J., built in 1847; mines at Ringwood, N.J. purchased in 1853; and the Durham Iron Works in Pennsylvania, purchased in 1870. To secure a supply of good iron ore, Hewitt had purchased the abandoned iron mines at Andover, N.J., in 1847. The Andover mines had been extensively worked before the Revolution, and the government of New Jersey had seized the property from its loyalist owners to supply the Revolutionary a...

Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903

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Hewitt graduated from Columbia in the class of 1842 and became, in turn, an attorney in New York City, a manufacturer of iron and steel, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1875-1879, 1881-1886, and Mayor of New York, 1887-1888. From the description of Abram S.Hewitt papers, n.d. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 496102421 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Hewitt graduated from Columbia in the class of 1842 and became, in turn, an attorney in New Yo...

Trenton Iron Co.

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Founded in 1847 by Peter Cooper; produced wrought iron structural beams, metal wire, etc. From the description of Letter books, 1864-1868, 1904. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58773460 ...