The Pennsylvania railroad - its origin, construction, condition, and connections; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and (14574384578)

Identifier: pennsylvaniarail00sipe (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia : (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) The Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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id, §287,887; capital invested,$161,500; tons mined, 244,298; value,$307,057. Iron-ore mines, i; hands em-ployed, 521; wages paid, $340,762; capitalinvested, $250,000; tons mined, 104,598;value, $367,623. The town of Gallitzin is named afterPrince Gallitzin, who settled in this county,at Loretto, in 1789. He was born in Mun-ster, Germany; his father, Prince Gallit-zin, ranking among the highest nobility ofRussia, and his mother being the daughterof Field-Marshal de Schmeltan, an officerunder Frederick the Great, of Prussia. Thesubject of this notice held a commission inthe Russian army from his birth. Europe,in the early part of his life, was desolatedby war, (the French revolution having burstlike a volcano upon that continent,) and asit afforded no facilities for travel,—consid-ered necessary to the education of youngmen of family,—it was determined that heshould visit America. He landed in Balti-more in 17S2. His mind, soon after, wasimpressed with the obligations of religion,
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CRESSON—LILLYS—SONMAN—PORTAGE—WILMORE, ETC. 147 and he renounced forever his brilliant pros-pects, pursued a course of ecclesiasticalstudies under Bishop Carroll, and enteredthe Catholic priesthood. In the year 1789he directed his course to the Alleghenymountains, and took up his residence inthe settlement of Loretto. Here, afterincredible labor and hardship, he foundeda prosperous colony, established schools,churches, and religious houses, and createdan influential centre for the religion heso much loved. His princely fortune wasexpended on his colony, and he laboredwith a zeal and industry that knew neitherabatement nor rest. He wrote several reli-gious works, and his Defense of CatholicPrinciples gained celebrity in Europe andAmerica. After a pastoral career of forty-two years he died at his post, on the 6th ofMay, 1840, and he sleeps the sleep of therighteous in the midst of the religious colonyhe founded and created. Coal is extensively mined near this sta-tion,—the pro