Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 18, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 32
Additional Source Text:
"The property of Messrs. Coleman and Grubb, (of the best quality which is made use of in that furnace). And a specimen of the most inferior quality which has a very considerable quantity of Copper in it."
Notes:
At this time the Cornwall mines and furnace in Lebanon County, Pa. were operated by Henry Bates Grubb (1774–1823) and Robert Coleman (1748-1825). See the Wikipedia article on the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty.
Daniel Buckley was a partner with Thomas Brooke and Matthew Brooke, Jr. in the Hopewell Furnace and Jones Good Luck Mine in Berks County, Pa.
