structures that harken back to a romance of other days, the life and works of the Jenkins and Jacobs families ,iron masters of the 18th and 19th centuries. Few of us today can really grasp the mode of life in those older days. We cannot realize that here in Lancaster county existed the old world chivalry and

done by Murray, Draper and Company of Philadelphia. The president also reported that he procured an �iron chest, which was delivered to the treasurer. The cost was one hundred and seventy-five dollars. This iron chest is at present in the cellar vault of the First Columbia National Bank. It is about

Myers alone who, in 1851, assigned to Nelson Hetherington. (Hetherington was Myers' son-in- law.) Produced 1,300 tons of iron a year. Abandoned in 1852 on account of difficulty in reaching ore and because: its timber supply was exhausted. 2 Shippenville Furnace, 1832. Hot blast. Stood at the junction of

CHRISTIAN MYERS, MIGRANT IRON MASTER AND A FOUNDER OF CLARION COUNTY By Paul E. Beck Christian Myers was born on a farm near Barcville, Lancaster County, June 24, 1796. Of his boyhood and youth, no record remains. On May 30, 1819, being then 23 years of age, he was married to Martha Henaberger, of