New York Times, 5 October 1885, p. 5, reads in part:
"Mr. Lewis Colwell, who has for many years been prominent in the lead and iron trades, died yesterday at his residence on West Twenty-eighth-street, in this city. He was born in Putnam County in 1814, and came to New-York as an apprentice in the iron works of Dunham & Browning when about 12 years old.
He rose to be Superintendent of the works, and while there demonstrated the possibility of using anthracite coal instead of charcoal in smelting iron.
About 1843 he started in business on his own account and made part of the castings for the Croton water works and much of the iron work for the Crystal Palace.
During the war he was connected with the building of the monitors Weehawken and Tecumseh and the Stevens Battery, and later on he established the iron works at the foot of West Twenty-seventh-street. Then he organized the Colwell Lead and Shot Company, of which he became Treasurer, but continued to devote his attention to his iron works."
Son of Joseph
& Anne
"Mr. Lewis Colwell, who has for many years been prominent in the lead and iron trades, died yesterday at his residence on West Twenty-eighth-street, in this city. He was born in Putnam County in 1814, and came to New-York as an apprentice in the iron works of Dunham & Browning when about 12 years old.
He rose to be Superintendent of the works, and while there demonstrated the possibility of using anthracite coal instead of charcoal in smelting iron.
About 1843 he started in business on his own account and made part of the castings for the Croton water works and much of the iron work for the Crystal Palace.
During the war he was connected with the building of the monitors Weehawken and Tecumseh and the Stevens Battery, and later on he established the iron works at the foot of West Twenty-seventh-street. Then he organized the Colwell Lead and Shot Company, of which he became Treasurer, but continued to devote his attention to his iron works."
Son of Joseph
& Anne
New York Times, 5 October 1885, p. 5, reads in part:
"Mr. Lewis Colwell, who has for many years been prominent in the lead and iron trades, died yesterday at his residence on West Twenty-eighth-street, in this city. He was born in Putnam County in 1814, and came to New-York as an apprentice in the iron works of Dunham & Browning when about 12 years old.
He rose to be Superintendent of the works, and while there demonstrated the possibility of using anthracite coal instead of charcoal in smelting iron.
About 1843 he started in business on his own account and made part of the castings for the Croton water works and much of the iron work for the Crystal Palace.
During the war he was connected with the building of the monitors Weehawken and Tecumseh and the Stevens Battery, and later on he established the iron works at the foot of West Twenty-seventh-street. Then he organized the Colwell Lead and Shot Company, of which he became Treasurer, but continued to devote his attention to his iron works."
Son of Joseph
& Anne
"Mr. Lewis Colwell, who has for many years been prominent in the lead and iron trades, died yesterday at his residence on West Twenty-eighth-street, in this city. He was born in Putnam County in 1814, and came to New-York as an apprentice in the iron works of Dunham & Browning when about 12 years old.
He rose to be Superintendent of the works, and while there demonstrated the possibility of using anthracite coal instead of charcoal in smelting iron.
About 1843 he started in business on his own account and made part of the castings for the Croton water works and much of the iron work for the Crystal Palace.
During the war he was connected with the building of the monitors Weehawken and Tecumseh and the Stevens Battery, and later on he established the iron works at the foot of West Twenty-seventh-street. Then he organized the Colwell Lead and Shot Company, of which he became Treasurer, but continued to devote his attention to his iron works."
Son of Joseph
& Anne
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