"Then I built a small iron works here in New York, first building it for the wire factory on Thirty-third Street near Third Avenue. This property I leased out to a man for a wire factory and in the course of two years he failed, and I then had it on my hands, to which I added and converted it into a rolling mill to roll not only the iron rods for making wire but other forms of pure iron. In this rolling mill I believe I was the first that ever puddled iron with anthracite coal. In the course of a few years the noise and the smoke of bituminous coal was found objectionable to some of the neighbors and I bought a place at Trenton with water power and removed the rolling mill from Thirty-third Street to the very end of the canal that takes the water from the Delaware River down to Trenton for some miles, and the water of that canal tours a great number of miles of different descriptions. After enlarging this rolling mill several times I built a second rolling mill for the purpose of rolling wire rods for the mill in Trenton, and also other forms of similar iron. The large beams spoken of elsewhere are also made in our works at Trenton. From two to three thousand people are now employed in the different iron mines and factories.
The Trenton Iron Works.
"It was for the various improvements that I had made in the manufacture of iron and steel that I received what is known as the Bessemer Medal from England."
