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IRON AND STEEL NECROLOGY. 1 U
Dudgeon, an inventor, at New York City, April 8, aged 76 years.
He was born in Scotland and came to America at the age of eight
years. Jacob V. Thomas, at Bellefonte, Pa., April 10, aged 77 years.
Mr. Thomas was a lU'sivndunl of one of the early iron manufacturers
in Centre county, and was at one time himself engaged in the iron
business. In 1S29 and 1833 two furnaces were built at Howard, Centre
county, by the firm of Harris, Thomas & Co. Gideon E. Moore,
at New York City, April 13, aged 53 years, lie was widely known as
a chemist, and at the time of his death was chief chemist of the Pas.
saic Zinc Company. Jonathan Warner, at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Myron I. Arms, at Youngstown, Ohio, April IS, aged 87 years.
Mr. Warner was a pioneer in the manufacture of iron in Ohio and in
the development of the iron-ore resources of the Lake Superior region.
He was one of the organizers of the Republic Iron Company, and was
president of the company up to 1875. George V. Smith, at New
York City, April 20, in his 47th year. He was born in New York 00
December 1, 1848. On April 1, 1881, he accepted the position of New
York sales agent for the Gautier Steel Department of the Cambria
Iron Works, of Johnstown, Pa., which position he held until his death.
Thomas Mastersou, formerly secretary of the Susquehanna Iron
Company, of Columbia, Pa., and lately connected with the rolling mill
of the Janson Iron Company at that place, at Lancaster, Pa., April
21, from injuries received by being struck by a freight train. He
was 59 years old. Richard Sharpe, one of the best-known coal operators
of the Lehigh region, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 21, aged 82
years. He was born in England. William S. Ellis, one of the
wealthiest and most influential citizens of Pottstown, Pa., April 24,
aged 53 years. Mr. Ellis was a member of The Ellis and Lessig Steel
and Iron Company Limited, and was one of the owners of the Pottstown
Passenger Railway. He was a Republican Presidential elector
in 1888. David Caldwell, at Gaysport, Blair county, Pa., April 30,
aged 92 years. He was one of the pioneer coke pig iron manufacturers
of Blair county, building a furnace at Gaysport between 1850 and 1860.
Colonel James Young, at Middletown, Pa., May 4, in his 75th year.
He was born at Swatara Hill, near Middletown, on July 25, 1820.
Colonel Young was president of the American Tube and Iron Company,
at Middletown, a director of the Harrisburg Rolling Mill Company,
and a director in various other industrial and financial enterprises.
His death was caused by a fall from his buggy. Amos
Gartside, president and treasurer of the Eureka Cast Steel Company,
of Chester, Pa., and prominent in other industrial enterprises, at
Chester, May 5, aged about 66 years. He was born in England in 1829
and was brought to this country when a child. William L. Lance,
at Germantown, Pa., May 2, aged 78 years. He was born in Philadelphia.
Mr. Lance was associated with William Lyman, of Boston, in
the building of Pioneer Furnace, at Pottsville, Pa., in 1838 and 1839,
which was the first furnace in the United States to make pig iron
continuously for three months with anthracite coal.