Lycoming Coal Company
Organization
Biography
The Lycoming Coal Company was located in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. It had been a working coal mine. The property was transferred on June 1, 1832, and was held as a partnership between four Boston businessmen, Thomas H. Perkins, Patrick T. Jackson, Edmund Dwight and George W. Lyman.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Lycoming Coal Company records
Collection Identifier: Mss:351 1832-1848 L981Scope and Contents:
The material in this collection, which runs from the company's origin to its dissolution, documents, among other things, an early attempt to win the American race to manufacture high quality iron along English lines. That is, the company's goal was to use coke (rather than charcoal) and the hot blast method to fire furnaces to produce large quantities of high-grade iron. Furthermore, the enterprise was an attempt to integrate all stages of production from coal mining to the manufacture of...