* Dunlap's Creek Bridge, near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, the first cast iron arch bridge in the United States.

* USS Huron ( 1875 ), an iron sloop-rigged screw steam gunboat built by John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania

* George W. Scranton ( 1811-19610, iron tycoon and U. S. Representative for Pennsylvania

Since northeastern Pennsylvania was a rich source of anthracite coal, anthracite-fired furnaces using locally available iron ores were built throughout eastern Pennsylvania, helping to make the state a leader in iron production in the latter half of the 19th century.

A new iron railroad bridge was fabricated in Athens, Pennsylvania at a cost of $ 30, 000 and shipped, by rail, to the site and erected in April and May 1879.

On October 8, 1845, the Montour Iron Works in Danville, Pennsylvania, produced the first iron T-rails made in America, offering the first domestic competition to English exports.

The early German and English woodchoppers who flocked to this first Pennsylvania iron industry west of the Susquehanna River were the forbears of today's community.

It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1902, replacing an earlier iron bridge.

Westward expansion of the Pennsylvania Railroad helped Philadelphia keep up with nearby New York City in domestic commerce, as both cities fought for dominance in transporting iron and coal resources from Pennsylvania.

With an additional tariff on iron to satisfy Pennsylvania interests, Van Buren expected the tariff to help deliver Pennsylvania, New York, Missouri, Ohio, and Kentucky to Jackson.

* Richard Hofstadter, " The Tariff Issue on the Eve of the Civil War ," American Historical Review, 64 ( October 1938 ): 50 – 55, shows Northern business had little interest in tariff in 1860, except for Pennsylvania which demanded high tariff on iron products

He built the first anthracite coal furnace for iron in south central Pennsylvania at Harrisburg.

The Panic of 1857 had crippled the nation's economy, including the Pennsylvania iron industry.

The four experts were named as Dr. Charles M. Cresson, Analytical Chemist of City and State Boards of Health ; Thomas Shaw, mechanical engineer ; William D. Marks, civil engineer and Professor of Dynamical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania ; and Jacob Naylor, iron founder and President of the Eighth National Bank.

The bog iron industry fell off in the mid-19th century when iron ore could be mined more cheaply in Pennsylvania.

Heavy iron " T " rails were first manufactured in the U. S. in the mid-1840s at Mount Savage, Maryland and Danville, Pennsylvania.

In the 19th century the river connected to the Morris Canal near Wharton and served as an industrial transportation link for shipping coal and iron ore between Pennsylvania and New York City.

It also carried iron ore westward through New Jersey to iron furnaces in western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania until the development of Great Lakes iron ore caused them to decline.

With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

… set in 1859 in Pennsylvania, and follows the exploits of oil prospector Scott as he struggles against various varmints and vested interests out to wreck his business, and tries to keep his marriage to Irene Dunne intact, despite the tempting presence of saloon singer Dorothy Lamour.

The New York interests formed an association, and about the middle of March 1872, sent a committee of three, with Rogers as head, to Oil City, Pennsylvania to consult with the Oil Producers ' Union.

Representatives of those organizations ( the New Jersey Association of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, and the Connecticut Society of Professional Engineers ) met in New York City and decided to form a new, nontechnical organization that would be dedicated to the interests of licensed professional engineers.

Although manufacturing interests, especially in Pennsylvania, sought a high tariff, the actual tariff in effect was low, and was reduced several times, with the 1857 tariff the lowest in decades.

* The Coxe Family Papers 1638-1970, highlighting the life and many accomplishments of Tench Coxe, and the Coxe Family Mining Papers, 1774-1968, documenting one of the largest independent anthracite coal mining interests in the nation, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

In 1901 Morgan arranged to have the Packer Estate's holdings purchased jointly by the Erie, the Pennsylvania, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the DLW, and the CNJ, all companies in which Morgan had interests.

He was accepted into medical school at the University of Pennsylvania but decided to forgo a career in medicine and instead pursue his interests in movies and films.

In 1990 the S. June Smith Center, located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and named after Alpha Sigma Alpha member S. June Smith ( Kappa Kappa chapter ), rounded out its philanthropic interests.

One strong critic of targeting, Pennsylvania State Rep. Mark B. Cohen of Philadelphia, has opposed targeting by new political organizations, warning that " targeting is counterproductive to the long-range interests of the Democratic Party.

Ball sold his interests in November 1930 to Pittsburgh Aviation Industries Corp., and the airline became Pennsylvania Air Lines ( PAL ).

Even the leaders of large Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) and New York Central Railroad ( NYC ), obstensibly bitter rivals, had secretly entered into a " community of interests " pact.

Following a summit and vocal protest by the independent oil producers and refiners led by Henry Huttleston Rogers and the Charles Pratt and Company refining interests of Brooklyn, New York, which came close to physical warfare in western Pennsylvania in March 1872 ( and came to be known as the " Oil War "), the railroads agreed to back down.

In the early 1870s, Pratt and Rogers became involved in a conflict with the infamous South Improvement Company, which was basically a scheme to obtain favorable net shipping rates of oil owned by John D. Rockefeller's interests from the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) and other railroads through a secret system of rebates.

The Kansas Pacific Railroad was an enterprise of the Philadelphia interests which controlled the Pennsylvania Railroad ( whose president John Edgar Thomson had employed Palmer as his personal secretary before the War ).

It was abandoned by the commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests.

Fearing the power of Philadelphia interests and their traditional hostility to the Pennsylvania Germans, Trexler worked with New York financiers to curtail the Philadelphians ' power and to create an economic climate favorable to local control of the city's business life.

James McParland who infiltrated the Molly Maguires for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency | Pinkerton Agency. Pinkerton's detective agency was already an established presence in the coal fields, having been active supervising the Coal and Iron Police, a private police force authorized by the state of Pennsylvania in 1865, paid for by railroad, mining and iron interests.

It was only later revealed that at the time, both the C & O and the N & W were essentially under the common control of the even larger Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) and New York Central Railroad ( NYC ), whose leaders, Alexander Cassatt and William Vanderbilt respectively, had secretly entered into a " community of interests " pact.

Herbert ’ s teachers at the South Philadelphia High School apparently did not know he had such avid mathematical interests, and were astonished when he was ranked first in the Pennsylvania Statewide Mathematical Tournament for high school students organized by Temple University in 1947.

( Although other television stations, including WWL-TV in New Orleans, KDTU ( now KTTU ) in Tucson, Arizona, WETG ( now WFXP ) in Erie, Pennsylvania, WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana, WTXX ( now WCCT-TV ) in Hartford, Connecticut, and WIHS-TV ( now WSBK-TV ) in Boston, have been owned by Catholic interests, all seven stations were commercial, primarily-secular stations with limited Catholic programming.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

These were carried out not too faithfully by Filippo Costaggini, who began by supplying the missing member to the founder of Pennsylvania and noting in pencil, in Italian, that he `` began at this point ''.

As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.

A Pennsylvania soldier wrote that `` they were the hardest looking set of men that ever I saw.

But our two Jeep mates -- Keo Viphakone from Luang Prabang and John Cool from Beaver, Pennsylvania -- were beaming under their coatings of dust.

In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.

While Republicans were discouraged, Democrats were energized and did especially well in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and New York.

The railroads were the first big businesses in America, and the Pennsylvania was one of the largest of them all.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

* Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and Carnegie, Oklahoma, were named in his honor.

Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.

Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.

In 2007, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said that photos the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization claimed showed a juvenile Bigfoot were most likely of a bear with mange.

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

Eisenhower's Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors, who were primarily farmers, included Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer of Karlsbrunn, who migrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1741.

A 2008 University of Pennsylvania study of 6, 000 dog owners who were interviewed indicated that dogs of smaller breeds were more likely to be " genetically predisposed towards aggressive behaviour ".

During his time in Canada, Sapir also acted as an advocate for Indigenous rights, arguing publicly for introduction of better medical care for Indigenous communities, and assisting the Six Nation Iroquois in trying to recover eleven wampum belts that had been stolen from the reservation and were on display in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the belts were only returned to the Iroquois in 1988.