He was the fourth- and last-generation scion of a family which controlled Cornwall Iron Furnace, in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, a major coal-burning ironmaking facility that was founded in 1742 by Peter Grubb and which produced pig iron, domestic products and, during the American Revolution and Civil War, cannon barrels.
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