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LEWIS, Frederick E .:
Lawyer and Mayor; born in Allen- town, Pa., in 1865; educated at the Col- legiate and Commercial Institute of New Haven, Conn., and at Muhlenberg Col- lege; studied law in the office of R. E. Wright & Son, of Allentown. and was admitted to the bar of Lehigh County in 1SSS. He was admitted to the State Supreme Court in 1893. Entering earnest- ly into Republican politics. he became the nominee of his party for Mayor of Allentown in 1896, and was duly elected by an increased majority. As a Mayor his administrations have been highly suc- cessful, and as a lawyer he has proved himself able and trustworthy and has gained an excellent practice. In busi- ness affairs he has been closely concerned with the Lehigh Telephone Company and the Allentown Bridge Company, and or- ganized the Merchants' National Bank, of which he is President. He is also President of the Allentown Board ' of Trade. He was for three years foreman and three years President of the Good- will Fire Company of Allentown. Ad- dress, Allentown, Pa.
LEWIS, George Albert:
Merchant and banker; born in Philadel- phia July 3, 1829; son of John F. (East In- dia merchant) and Eliza (Mower) Lewis; educated in Friends' Academy and oth- ers. Married, July 1, 1551, Anne Cornelia, daughter of Rev. Thomas Larcombe, of Philadelphia. Formerly East India mer- chant; from July, 1563. cashier of City National Bank of Philadelphia; resigned March 7, 1900. He is an artist, illustrator and genealogist. Member of American Philosophical Society, the Numismatic and Antiquarian of Philadelphia, Genealogical
of Pennsylvania, Historical of Pennsyl- vania. etc. Address, 1834 De Lancey Place, Philadelphia, Pa.
LEWIS, Granville:
Captain United States Army; was born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; pri- vate Oct. 16, 1855, to Sept. 30. 1860, under name of Charles Forester; private. Ser- geant and Sergeant Major, Fourth New York Infantry, Feb. 8 to May 28, 1862; honorably inustered out May 25, 1863; private in general service Feb. 9, 1864, to Feb. 1, 1865; Second Lieutenant, Fifth Infantry, May 11, 1866; First Lieutenant Jan. 29, 1867; brevetted Captain Feb. 27, 1890, for gallant service in action against Indiany on the Upper Washita River. Texas, Sept. 9. 1874, where he was se- verely wounded; retired Nov. 30, 1879. Address, 1530 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEWIS, G. Mortimer:
Lawyer and promoter; born in Wyalus- ing, Pa .; educated at Lafayette College, where he was graduated in 1873; studied law and was admitted to the bar of Lu- zerne County in 1875. In addition to the important legal practice which Mr. Lewis has enjoyed, he has given a great part of his time to the fostering and develop- ing of business and industrial enter- prises. Among these is the Wilkesbarre Electric Light Company, of which he was one of the organizers. His most import- ant work in this direction has been the consolidation of the street railways of Wilkesbarre and vicinity into the Wilkesbarre and Wyoming Valley Trac- tion Company, of which he was one of the original Directors. This system brings into one a series of ten or more separate railways, with more than sixty miles of trackage. In addition,
Mr. Lewis organized and is President of the Mt. Vernon Coal Company, and is a Di- rector in the Colorado Marble and Slate Companies and the Elk Mountain Rail- way Company of Colorado. Address, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
LEWIS. Howard Benton:
Lawyer; born at Port Wine, Plumas County. Cal., Nov. 21. 1867; educated in the public schools of Schuylkill County, Pa .; removed to Philadelphia in 18$5. and. after some training in literary and journalistic fields, read Inw and was ad- mitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1992. Republican in politics; law litterateur
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and member of the Pennsylvania Bar As- sociation, Law Association of Philadel- phia, Law Academy of Philadelphia, Union Republican Club, Lincoln Club, and other organizations. Address, 1318 Stephen Gi- rard Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
LEWIS, James:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private First Delaware Infantry April 18, 1861; mustered out Aug. 6, 1861; private First Delaware Infantry Aug. 7, 1861; Sergeant Sept. 10, 1861; Sergeant Major Oct. 2, 1861: discharged for pro- motion Dec. 20, 1861; Second Lieutenant First Delaware Infantry Dec. 21, 1861; First Lieutenant Aug. 1, 1562; resigned and honorably discharged Nov. 20, 1863; First Lieutenant Eighteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps Nov. 21, 1863; honorably mustered out Feb. 23, 1866. Elected Nov. 12. 1890. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEWIS. John Frederick:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia Sept. 10. 1860; son of S. Weir and Caroline A. (Kalbfus) Lewis; he was graduated with highest honors from Central High School in 1879, and received the degree of A. M. from same in 1SS1; studied law under Hon. George M. Dallas, and was admitted to the bar in 1882; practiced with Hon. Charles Gibbons & Son in the Courts of Admiralty. Married in Philadelphia May 23, 1895, Anne H. Rush Baker, daughter of Alfred .G. and Henrietta Rush (Fales) Baker. He is President of the Mercan- tile Library Company of Philadelphia, Treasurer of the Gencalogical Society of Pennsylvania, President of the Young American Humane Union, Curator of the Prints of the Academy of Fine Arts of Pennsylvania, President of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society, member of the Council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, incm- ber of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and one of the editors of its Proceedings, Vice President of the Merchants' Trust Company of Philadelphia, Vice President of the Insur- ance Company of the State of Pennsyl- vania. Director of the Farmers and Me- chanies' National Bank of Philadelphia, President of the Roy Consolidated Gold LEWIS. Sanford O .: Mining Company of Mexico: was one of Manufacturing President; was horn in Cleveland, Ohio, March 13. 1955: educated the organizers and is Solicitor of the Philadelphia Bourse, Solicitor for the ! in the public schools; became a railroad
Philadelphia Maritime Exchange, Vice President of Philadelphia Trans-Atlantic Line; Solicitor of the Northern Home for Friendless Children; Secretary of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, member of the Archeological Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, Philadelphia Country Club, -Far- mers' Club of Chester County, Franklin Institute, and Mcrion Cricket Club. Resi- dence in winter, 1914 Spruce St., and in summer at "Morstein," Morstein, Chester County. Pa. Office, the Bourse Building, Philadelphia.
LEWIS, Samuel Neave:
Major United States Volunteers; born at Philadelphia, Pa., where his ances- tors for years had resided; was an as- sociate member of Company A, First Regiment (Gray) Reserve Brigade Militia of Pennsylvania in 1861, and served as a private in Company A, above regiment, when Companies A and C were in ser- vice. May. 1862, assisting in suppressing riots in Schuylkill County, Pa. In the summer of 1862, at the age of eighteen years. he recruited Company E, 118th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, at the Girard House, Ninth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, and bore all the expenses of raising the company. He was mustcred in as Second Lieutenant Aug. 20, 1862; severely wounded in the thigh at the battle of Shepherdstown, W. Va., Sept. 20, 1862. and received a commission as First Lieutenant, Company E. 118th Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, bearing date of above battle; but not mustered in as First Lieutenant till March 9. 1S63. Dc- tailed Sept. 12, 1863, Acting-Aide-de-Camp on staff of Col. Jos. Hayes, commanding First Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and. after some service in that capacity, resigned, and was honorably discharged for disability from wounds and sickness, Nov. 27. 1863. He served on the staffs of Major Gens. Charles M. Provost and John P. Bankson (commanding Frist Division of National Guard of Pennsylvania). as Aide-de- Camp, with the rank of Major. from Jan. 18, 1868. to July 27, 1876, when he resigned and was honorably discharged. AAddress. Fourth and Chestnut Sts., Phila- delphia, Pa.
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clerk, and later was interested in min- ing operations. After spending some time in 1876-1877 prospecting for minerals in Central and South America, he went to Western Pennsylvania, where he became intererested in the development of the coal, oil and natural gas of that re- gion. In this field of operations he dis- played great abilty, and in time became recognized as one of the most successful men of the region. He is widely known in the oil interest as President of the Eclipse Refining Company, in which he has developed an immense business. He is also a Director of the Austin National Bank of Austin, Texas; the First Na- tional Bank of Franklin, Pa .; the Eclipse Printing Company. the Reisenman Chem- ical Company, and various other con- cerns, and General Manager of the At- lantic Refining Company. He ; also Vice President of the Franklin Natural Gas Company, but his time is prinicpally occupied in connection with the offices of the Standard Oil Company. He was for two years Mayor of Franklin, and has served as an officer of the National Guard of the State and as Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Governor Hastings. He is a member of the Union League, the New York Club, and the Union Club of Cleveland, Ohio. Address, Franklin, Pa.
LEWIS, Rev. Thomas L., D. D .:
Born in Glanmorganshire, Wales, March 7, 1854; in 1863 his parents moved to Pennsylvania, and located in Schuylkill County; educated in Bucknell University, graduating in 1880. He spent three years in Crozer Theological Seminary, complet- ing the course in 1983; he was ordained to the Baptist ministry Feb. 4, 1883, and took charge of the First Baptist Church at Bethlehem, Pa., until Oct. 7, 18SS. On Oct. 11, 1SSS, he took charge of the Balligomingo Baptist Church till 1891. Since Sept. 20, 1891 he has served the Richmond Baptist Church of Philadel- phia. Address, 3060 E. Thompson St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEWIS, Wilfred:
Mechanical engineer; born in Philadel- phia Oct. 16. 1851: educated at the Friends' Central School and the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, gradu- ating from the latter in 1875 with the de- gree of S. B. M. E. In the employ of William Sellers & Co. for twenty-five Years, during which time he made ex-
perimental researches, the results of which were reported to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 1900 engaged in the manufacture of foundry molding machines, assuming the Presi- dency of the Tabor Manufacturing Com- pany, which position he still holds. He is one of the founders of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia; was elected Presi- dent for the year 1891; Vice President of the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers, 1892-1903. He married, in 1895, Emily Sargent of New York. Address. 5901 Drexel Road, Philadelphia, Pa.
LEWIS, William Draper:
Lecturer, author; born in Philadelphia, April 27, 1867; son of Henry and Fanny H. Lewis; he was graduated from Hav- erford College in 1888, with the degree of B. S., and from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1891, with the degrees of Ph. D., LL. D .; married, June 22, 1892, Caroline M. Cope, of Germantown. Instructor on legal historical institutions, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; lectu- rer on economics Haverford College, 1890- 1896; edited American Law Register. Member Advisory Council of World's Best Orations and World's Best Essays; dean of the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania since 1896. Author of "Federal Power Over Commerce and Its Effects on State Action," 1891; "Our
Sheep and the Tariff," 1891; "Specific Performance of Contracts," 1903-1904; also numerous articles on legal, economics and historical topics for periodicals. Editor
of Lewis's edition "Greenleaf's Evidence," 1896; "Wharton's Criminal Law," 1895; Lewis's edition "Blackstone's Commenta- ries," 1897; "Digest of Decisions of Unit- ed States Supreme Court and Circuit Court of Appeals," 1897; "Pepper and Lewis's Digest of Statutes of Pennsyl- vania," (co-editor) 1896-1904; "Digest of Decisoins and Encyclopedia of Pennsyl- vania Laws." Address, Thirty-fourth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEWIS, William I .:
Lawyer; born in Potter County, Pa., in 1$52; educated in Alfred University, where he graduated Ph. D. in 1876; studied law under Olmsted & Larrabee, and was ad- mitted to the bar of Potter and Mckean Counties in 1878. He opened an office at Duke Center, Mckean County, and prac- ticed there till 1882, when he went to Coudersport, Potter County, and there in
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1883 became a partner of his preceptor. Hon. D. C. Larrabee. Mr. Larrabee died in 1889, 'and in 1822 Mr. Lewis entered into partnership with F. C. Leonard. now United States Marshal of the Middle Dis- trict of Pennsylvania. In JS94 Potter and Clinton Counties indorsed his name as a. candidate for Congress, but after & dead- loek of two months he and his opponent withdrew from the contest, and his part- ner, Mr. F. C. Leonard, was nominated and eleeted. Several changes of partner- ship took place till 1900, since when Mr. Lewis has praetieed alone, and now en- joys a large and lucrative legal business, especially in corporation law, his clientele including numerous important business concerns of the neighboring counties. He rarely deals with criminal cases. Ad- dress, Coudersport. Pa.
LEWIS, William J .:
Jurist; born in Lackawanna County, Pa., Aug. 27, 1843, and educated in the publie sehools of Carbondale, Pa. On the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company B, 177th Penn- sylvania Infantry, and served with dis- tinetion. at one time aeting as Regi- mental Paymaster. After being honor- ably discharged from the service, he studied and entered upon the practice of law, and in 1878 was elected an Associate Lay Judge of Lackawanna County. In 1885, at the end of his term upon the beneh, he was nominated for Sheriff and eleeted to that office. Sinee the close of his official duties he has assumed the practice of law. Address, Scranton, Pa.
LIEFELD, (Friedrich Wilhelm) Al- bert:
Clergyman; born in Ludwigsfelde, near Berlin, Germany, March 14. 1831; edu- cated in German schools; entered the German Army, serving in the Black Ius- sars under Emperor William I .. 1851-1855; studied divinity, and was graduated at Hermansburg, Hanover, Germany, 1861; visited South Africa 1861-1 65 as a mis- sionary of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church; moved to the United States in February, 1566. Married July 27, 1866, Anna Sophia Braunaek. He had minis- terial charges in Wisconsin, Illinois, In- diana and Pennsylvania; is now emeritus. Author of "Erntekranz," 15$1; "Different Teachings on Foreordination," 1SST;
"South African Mission," 1525; "A Friend- ly Discussion of the Holy Sacraments," 1595. Address, Allegheny, Pa.
LIGGETT, Runter:
Major United States Army; born in Reading, Pa .. 1857; entered United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., June. 187; was graduated June, 1879; Second Lieutenant, Fifth Infantry; served at Fort Keogh, Mont., from 1870 to 1SS6 with Fifth Infantry; promoted First Lieu- tenant, Fifth Infantry. June, 18S4; served in North Dakota, 1886-1888; Texas. 1SSS- 1892; Florida and Georgia, 1892-1897; Ad- jutant, Fifth Infantry, 1892-1806; Captain, Fifth Infantry, June 1, 1897; Major and Assistant Adjutant General, United States Vols .. June, 1898; Adjutant General, Third Division, Fourth Army Corps. June, 1893, to Deeember, 1898; Adjutant Gen- eral, Third Division, Second Army Corps. December, 1898, to February, 1509; Ad- jutant General, Second Division, Second Army Corps, February, 1899, to April, 1899; served in Cuba, April, 1899, to July, 1890, with Fifth Infantry. Appointed Ma- jor of Volunteers, and assigned to Thirty- first Volunteer Infantry, July. 1$99; served with the Thirty-first Volunteers in Phil- ippine Islands, October, 1899, to June, 1901. commanding sub-distriet of Davao. Mindanao; Adjutant General, First Sep- arate Brigade, Luzon, P. I., December. 1901, to July, 1902. Promoted Major Twenty-first U. S. Infantry, May 5, 1902; detailed as Adjutant General and as- signed to Department of the Lakes, Chi- cago, since September, 1903. Address, Ad- jutant General's Department, Chicago, Ills.
LIGGETT, Sidney B .:
Secretary of the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pittsburg; born on Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, May 10, 1849. He is the son of John Liggett, who was engaged in mercantile life. His mother was a Miss Catherine Hutton. His family was one of the earliest of Seoteh-Irish origin to settle in Pittsburg. He was educated in the publie schools and at the Western University of Pittsburg, and, on the con- clusion of his studies, he became a clerk in a large iron and steel firm, where he remained until 1871, when he entered the serviee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany as a clerk in the accounting de- partment. His promotion was continu- ous until 1881, when he was appointed Secretary of the lines west of Pittsburg. He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and one of the Board of Managers of Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
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LIGHT, Simon P .:
Railway promoter and lawyer; born in Lebanon Aug. 30, 1861; educated in Le- banon Valley College; studied law and was admitted to the bar of Lebanon County. He soon gained a large clientage, including some of the leading corporations of the county. An earnest and active Democrat, he served his party as dele- gate to the national conventions of 1892 and 1896. In 1899 he was elected County Solicitor, filling this position for three years. Aside from his practice he has been very active in business affairs. He organized and became President of the Lebanon Street Railway Company in 1800, was Secretary of the Pennsylvania Street Railway Association, 1892-1828, was for a time a Director of the Wilkesbarre and Wyoming Valley Traction Company, and was President of the People's Telephone Company until it was sold to the United States Telephone and Telegraph Company, in which he is a Director. He is Treasur- er of the Lebanon Valley Iron Company and a Trustee of Lebanon Valley College. Address, Lebanon, Pa.
LILLER, William C .:
Soldier; born in Louisville, Ky., Sept. S, 1878; moved with his parents to Lancaster, removed with his parents to Lancaster, Pa., in 1886; attended private and public schools in his native city and at Lancas- ter, Pa .; in 1895 entered upon the study of law with Col. H. Frank Eshleman; later attended University of Tennessee (Law Dept.). Volunteered for Spanish-Ameri- can War, and served with the Sixth United States Cavalry, participating in the campaign before Santiago de Cuba under Gens. Shafter; Wheeler and Young; with Gens. Wheeler, Gobin. and others organized the National Association of Spanish-American War Veterans. and was its first Adjutant General, serving nearly five years with the title of Briga- dier General, displaying unusual executive ability. He is President of the Liller Manufacturing Company, Inc., of Lancas- ter, Pa .; also of the Volunteer Publishing Company, Inc., and senior member of the firm of Liller. Freeman & Co., bankers and brokers; enjoys an enviable national reputation as an organizer and adminis- trator, and is regarded as an authority on matters military; is a member of nu- merous military and patriotic societies and civic organizations. At present he is National Secretary of the United States
Volunteer Association. Address, Lancas- ter, Pa.
LINCOLN, Paul M .:
Of the engineering department of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur- ing Company of Pittsburg; born at Nor- wood, Mich., Jan. 1, 1870. Afterward graduated from the public schools and at- tended Adelbert College, Cleveland, Ohio, for one year, and the Ohio State Uni- versity for the succeeding two years and a half, leaving at the end of the first term of the senior year to accept a posi- tion with the Short Electric Railway Company of Cleveland, Ohio. By special arrangement with the University Faculty he was permitted to take examinations in the college work from time to time, and was graduated with his class in the sum- mer of 1892. In December of 1892 he accepted a position with the Westinghouse Company, Pittsburg, where he remained until February, 1895, when he accepted a position with the clectrical installations of the Niagara Falls Power Company. This position he held until May, 1902, when he resumed his connection with the Westinghouse Company. One of his in- ventions, the "Lincoln synchroniser," was awarded a bronze medal at the Buffalo Exhibition in 1901, and the John Scott medal at the Franklin Institute of Phila- delphia, 1902. Mr. Lincoln is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Electro-chem- ical Society, the Franklin Institute, and the Engineers' Society of Western Penn- sylvania. He is also a Fellow of the Am- crican Association for the Advancement of Science. Address, 6830 Thomas St., Pittsburg, Pa.
LINDERMAN, Robert P .:
President of Bethlehem Iron Company; born in Mauch Chunk. Pa .. July 26, 1863. He was educated in the Mount Pleasant Military Academy at Sing Sing, N. Y., where he was graduated as valedictorian of his class; and in 1SSt he was gradu- ated Ph. B. from Lehigh University. In the same year he entered the house of Linderman & Skeer, a large coal operat- ing concern, of which his father was the senior partner. He soon became familiar with the business, and on the death of his father, in 1895, succeeded him as head of the firm. The firm dissolved in 1896. their coal mines being exhausted. He became a Director in 1885 of the Lehigh
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Valley National Bank at Bethlehem; its Vice President after the death of his father, who had long been its President, and in 18SS he succeeded to this office; he also succeeded his father in 1885 as a Director of the Bethlehem Iron Company, and of this also he became Vice President (1SSS) and President (1890). This great company has made an immense progress under Mr. Linderman's management, and its reputation is world wide. He is con- nected with various other manufacutring concerns in Bethlehem, and socially is a member of various clubs and societies in Bethichem, Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere. Address, Bethlehem, Pa.
LINDLER, John:
Manufacturer; born in 1859 in Newark, N. J., in the homestead which has been the residence of his parents ever since they settled in America; educated in the public schools in Newark, N. J., and in the New Jersey Business College. On laying aside his books he entered the employ of Bannister & Tichner, shoe manufacturers in Newark, with whom he acquired a practical knowledge of shoe manufacturing, thoroughly equipping himself for a sueeessful business eareer. In 1882 he entered the employ of Rey- nolds Brothers, shoe manufacturers, of Utica. N. Y., and soon rose to the posi- of one of the managers of that firm. Later he managed successfully the busi- ness of Wade, Buckley & Co., manufac- turers, at Port Jervis. N. Y. Six years afterward he became Superintendent and manager of the Carlisle Shoe Company of Carlisle. Pa., where he demonstrated his capability by. in three years' time, increasing the output of the factory sevenfold. This pronounced success en- couraged him to try larger and more difficult undertakings, and in 1891 he or- ganized and had incorporated the Lind- ner Shoe Company of Carlisle, Pa., which was suceessful from the start. He is a member of the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Association of Civics, the State Forestry Association. the National Trade Exchange, the As- sociation of Shor Manufacturers, the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Commercial Museum; is locally a member of the Hamil- ton Library Association and of the Coldwell Post, G. A. R. He is a Repubilean in politics. In 1998 he was elerand a member of the Borough Coun- cit of Carlisle, was elected President of
that body, and, at the expiration of his term as member, was re-elected without opposition, and again in 1904 without op- position. Lindner Park, a suburb and western part of Carlisle, presented to and maintained for the city of Carlisle, 1903, wherein is planted a collection of all the native and other rare trees of Pennsyl- vania, shrubbery and plants making a beautiful landseape. In religious belief he is a Lutheran, and contributes largely to that church and the Christian charities generally. In 1884 Mr. Lindner was mar- ried to Matilda B., daughter of Charles WV. and Matilda B. Metz, of Utica, N. Y. Address, Carlisle, Pa.
LINDSAY, George Brooke:
Lawyer; born in Delaware County, Pa., Aug. 5, 1852; son of John C. Lindsay, of Chester, State Legislator in 1830-1831. He was educated in the public schools and Chester Academy, and read law in the office of William Ward and William B. Broomall, being admitted to the Delaware County bar in 1875. Three years more were spent in duties under his preceptors, and in 1878 he opened an office for him- self. As an attorney he has been chicily -, coneerned in civil cases, and has been eounsel for numerous corporations, while he has aeted as Trustee for many large estates. He was elected President of the Chester Traction Company in IS94, and is also President of the Union Railway Com- pany of Chester, and a Director in the Chester National Bank, the Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works, the Chester Free Library, etc. Address, Chester, Pa.
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