Protectionism, Wages and Strikes in the Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose This article has been excerpted from the author's master's thesis completed in 1967 • The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County, Pa.: 1840-1900. During much of the

The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: Rolling Mills 1850-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Desciption Although rolling mills had been used early in the nineteenth century for reducing the thickness of bar iron produced at the forges, rolling mills as a separate industry were

Anthracite Iron Blast Furnaces in Lancaster County 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Description Unlike the charcoal furnace, the anthracite furnace was a product of the age of steam power; indeed, it was a symbol of a whole new era in which the trinity of coal, iron, and steam

iron industry in Lancaster County between the Panic of 1837 and the Revulsion of 1884—The Anthracite Furnace Period. The ironmaster of this time more likely was a fairly modest businessman who was sufficiently adventurous to stake his or another person's fortune on the least stable industry, and who

Installation of The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens In the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame An address by John Ward Willson Loose 16 November 1974 at Founders Hall, Girard College, Philadelphia Ladies and gentlemen, officers, judges, and guests of the Penn- sylvania Hall of Fame's Third Annual Banquet: I am pleased

, THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA: Learning that your Honorable bodies contemplate passing an Act of Assembly to provide for the erection of a penitentiary for the confinement of criminals convicted in the central part of the State, we, the undersigned Com

Millersville State College students on field trip in 1946. In photo at left, student is holding a conical section of a condenser. Girl in right photo is holding matching fragments of a tube retort. No evidence of the furnace sur- vives today. nearly perpendicular, dipping slightly to the north- These veins are

been applied to a local savings bank, a chapter of Phi Delta Kappa professional education fraternity, and the labels of a well-known beer brewed in Pottsville. This would be amusing and hardly worthy of serious notice if it were not accepted as fact by many students. From the days of the First

administration of government therein, under its present charter, is inadequate to the advancement of public health and order, to the suppression of vice and immorality, and to the promotion of trade, industry, and happiness." If the State Legislature would have acted affirmatively on the petition, Lancaster

century and early twentieth century. The city had 8,417 persons in 1840 but ten years later 12,369 were counted by the census taker. In 1900 the city population had soared to 41,459. In any community the increase of population generally results in a rise in crime and its attendant evils, sin �106 JOURNAL

of the Civil War after which he attend- ed Millersville State Normal School (now Millersville University). Following his graduation he entered the famed Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he received his degree of doctor of medicine in 1870. He practiced for some years in Rohrerstown and