Urban Capitalists: Entrepreneurs and City Growth in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Lehigh Regions, 1800-1920 |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
List of Illustrations | 10 |
The First Towns in Northeast Pennsylvania 18001850 | 11 |
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Allentown American anthracite Archbald Asa Packer became Bethlehem Iron board of trade build businessmen canal capitalists Carbondale Carbondale's Charles city's Coal Company coal operators competition corporations county seat Dickson Manufacturing Company director directorships dominated Dundaff early Easton economic development elite entrepreneurs ethnic export George Scranton helped History of Luzerne History of Scranton Hitchcock Honesdale immigrants industrial industrialists investments investors Iron Company James Jermyn Jessup John Lacka Lackawanna County Lackawanna Valley land largest leadership Lehigh River Lehigh Valley Railroad Leisenring Luzerne County Mauch Chunk merchant migration mill mining Montrose Moravians moved to Scranton multiregional center National Bank nearby newcomers northeast Pennsylvania Number old settlers Packer group Philadelphia Phinney Pittston political population president rails regional capital Schwab Scran Scranton City Scranton group Scrantonians Selden social South Bethlehem Susquehanna County talent Thomas Dickson Throop Torrey Towanda town's towns U.S. Steel wealth Weston Wilbur Wilkes-Barre William Wyoming Valley Yankees York City