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{"value"=>"1020826", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"(b) Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Co"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Taylor and Charles Heckscher joined August Belmont, Simon Cameron, and others in purchasing iron ore property in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Bought at a sheriff's sale, the property was conveyed to the newly-chartered Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company not far from Philadelphia. Over the next fifteen years Taylor and Percy Pyne gained control of the company. Although Taylor unwaveringly supported the company it would prove to be one of his less successful ventures, and a decade after his death in 1882, his executors foreclosed the mortgage and declared bankruptcy. Of special interest in this series are the letters of two resident supervisors, Eugene Border, to his uncle, Charles Heckscher, and Charles Nourse to Percy Pyne. Together these letters form a fluent managerial chronicle of strikes and labor disputes, engineering concerns, technological innovations, improvements, and improvisations, weather conditions, and the routine problems of road building and management.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Letterbooks, 1879-1892; correspondence, 1881-c1892; letters from resident superintendents, 1851-1880; minutes of the meetings of the Board of Directors, 1851-1893, 1901; account books of the Receiver, S. S. Palmer, 1893-1900; papers, 1853-1864 of an Agent, George Campbell, Checking account books, 1879-1892; day book, 1859-1864; journals and ledgers 1851-1892; weekly blast furnace reports, 1879-1892; mortgage income bond transfer book, 1885-1894; map of property; and drafts of two tracts of land.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"See also: Oversize Charter Case: Map of property of Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Co.; draft of two tracts of land in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, [Pennsylvania] surveyed for the Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Co., July 17, 1860"}