economically. A patent was granted to him by the patent office at Washington on 19 December 1833, for "a new and useful improvement in the manufacture of iron and steel by the application of anthracite coal."" Three Lancaster County anthracite furnaces—Shawnee (1844), Chikis- walungo (1845), and Henry Clay

, however, amount of bituminous coal consumed at Safe Harbor Rolling Mill in Convention of Iron Masters, op. cit., Appendix, Table 3. 12. The Columbia Spy, 2 February 1856; George H. Burgess and Miles C. Kennedy, Centennial History of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company: 1846-1946 (Philadelphia, PA.: The

out- standing detectives, and were recognized far beyond the boundaries of Lancaster County. Edward Barnholt was born in March 1846 in Philadelphia. When he was eighteen years old he enlisted in Company H, 213th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving from 21 February 1865 until the unit was