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Coming as an Irish lad, presumably without means or friends, he worked his way in business with such success that in 1810, when but 30 years of age, he was the sec- ond largest dealer in iron at Pittsburgh and handled during that year the enormous quantity of 350 tons. (Navigator 1811.) The first rolling mill in Pittsbugh was erected by him in 1812 at a cost of nearly $100,000. (Louisiana and Mississippi Almanac, 1813.) From this date until his death he appears to have been prominent in the bus...iness life of the community and his name fre- quently appears as a captain of industry and a prominent participant in current events. He required large quanti- ties of Juniatta and Centre County iron for his rolling mill and in 1814 advertised in the Pittsburgh Mercury for from 20 to 50 wagons to haul iron from the furnaces and forges near Bellefonte and stated that 20 or 30 of them would be employed to haul iron by the year. (Eras- mus Wilson's History of Pittsburgh, 151-258-259.) John Newton Boucher, in "A Century and a Half of Pittsburgh and Her People," says, Vol.
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