Papers, 1862-1872 [typed transcript].

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Papers, 1862-1872 [typed transcript].

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The papers consist of typed transcripts 12 letters, the bulk of which were sent by David Thomas to his niece, Jane Harris Bowen, and nephew, David Harris, in Wales. Two of the letters were written by Jane Harris to her family back in Wales while a guest of David Thomas in Catasauqua, Pa. The transcripts, including translation from Welsh, were made by a descendant, Dr. David J. Harris, in the mid-1970s. The letters deal primarily with family news, but Thomas also writes about general business conditions, the level of prices and wages and the Civil War. While fondly remembering his former home, family and acquaintances, Thomas repeatedly discourses on the opportunities to be found in America and urges his relatives to emigrate.

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Harris, David, 1831-1896.

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Thomas, David, 1794-1882

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David Thomas was born on November 3, 1794, at Tyllwyd, Glamorganshire, Wales. He began working at the Neath Abbey iron works in 1812 and in 1817 was made general superintendent of the Yniscedwyn Iron Works, which was acquired by George Crane in 1820. The two men conducted extensive experiments to use the local anthracite coal to smelt iron, but without success. In 1836 they learned of the hot-blast invented by James B. Neilson in Scotland. Crane received a British patent for hot-bla...

Thomas, Samuel, 1827-1906

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Samuel Thomas was born in Wales in 1827, the son of David Thomas (1794-1882), a Welsh ironmaster who pioneered the smelting of iron with anthracite coal using the hot blast. Thomas was induced to emigrate to Pennsylvania in 1838, where he operated the works of the Lehigh Crane Iron Company, a firm organized by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company as a means of increasing the utilization of its coal. David Thomas left the Crane Company in 1854 and founded his own Thomas Iron Comp...

Bowen, Jane Harris.

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Harris, David J.,

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Lehigh Crane Iron Company.

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