Papers, [1846?]

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Papers, [1846?]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41091133

The collection contains a typescript copy of the autobiography of Josiah White, describing White's apprenticeship to a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hardware merchant; the management of White's hardware store in Philadelphia, ca. 1808; a trip to Georgia and White's opinion of slavery; the development of a waterpower site on the falls of the Schuylkill River, 1810-1819; development of the Lehigh Mine Company's anthracite coal lands, including the creation of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company in 1822 and the construction of the Lehigh Cana, 1827- 1829; and the construction of the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Canal, 1828-1832. Also contains a list of White's inventions.

1 vol.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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White, Josiah, 1781-1850

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Josiah White was the builder of the first major economically operating canal in North America used to bring coal to Philadelphia from Lehigh as well as an inventor and designer of a school system based on manual labor. From the description of Papers, 1796-1949. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 32198185 Josiah L. White was a partner in the firm Scolley & White. The company performed carpentry and cabinet-work in Newton and later, Ashburnham, Ma. ...