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The Population of Grove City Reached 3,674
1910 Context: By the 1900s, the coal mining business was a major employer in the area. Pennsylvania‘s peak year of coal production was 1917 although it remained the number one coal mining state in the U.S.A. until 1930. The population of Grove City reached 3,674. The population of Pine Township was 2,289. This represented a combined population increase of 2,225 over the 1900 census. The Good Citizens League was active in community affairs. Note: R. E. English was President of the Good Citizens League. In 1910, he submitted a description of Grove City and the League‘s activities in which he stated: Its membership of 250 out of a population of about 4,000… …60 per cent of the entire population belongs to the five churches, … the town has no saloons and no policemen. …a school attendance of 900, which is very high … that 45 per cent of the boys go through the high school. The thoughtless will ask as to the need of an organization in such a place. This is where the League shows its constructive character. It proposes to keep the citizens and the town on their feet instead of allowing everything to go wrong and then getting busy. The main work of the League is done through committees. The work of some is obvious, the field of others is unique i Athletic Committee; Law Enforcing Committee, composed of two men who are known only to the president, which looks after illegal liquor selling, and after merchants who sell tobacco or cigarettes to minors; Taxpayers Committee, which is represented at every council meeting, which passes upon every contract, bond issue, and other financial matters; Health Committee, which watches such things as vacant lots, cesspools, sewage, rubbish and the protection of foods exposed for sale; Civic Committee, working mainly along the lines of civic art, the care and development of streets, the care of the banks of streams; and an Entertainment Committee which looks after needed speakers for problems under consideration and social activities generally. -
13 October 14, 1912 Marcus Hook J. N. Pew Dies
CHESTER TIMES – October 14, 1912 PRESIDENT PEW TO BE BURIED TODAY – Head of Sun Company to be Interred in Mercer County – Pioneer In Oil Trade The funeral of Joseph Newton Pew, president of the Sun Company, which operates a large oil plant at Marcus Hook, will take place this afternoon at “Bonwoode”, Mercer County, where his father and family are buried. Services were held Saturday afternoon at his home in Bryn Mawr. Mr. Pew, who died last Thursday morning as a result of an attack of heart failure at his office in Philadelphia, was born at “Bonwoode” sixty-four years ago. “Bonwoode” has been owned by his family since its purchase by his great grandfather from the Indians, when western Pennsylvania was first opened for settlement. As a young man, Mr. Pew was one of the pioneers in the oil business. When in his early twenties he developed in a small way oil properties in the Bradford County fields, and with those properties started the extensive business of which he died president. In 1880 he incorporated the Sun Oil Company with a refinery at Toledo, Ohio. This company later became the Sun Company. When the Texas oil field was opened the Sun Company, under Mr. Pew’s direction, erected a large refinery at Marcus Hook, Pa., and built a fleet of steamships to carry the crude oil from Texas to this refinery on the Delaware and thence to Europe. Both the Toledo and Pennsylvania plants have been greatly increased in size since, and now constitute one of the largest competitors of the Standard and other oil companies. -
Scholar Visits for Writers Conference Speaker to Address Youth in Crisis
CollegianThe Campus worships, March 27, 2009 Vol. 69 No. 18 Missionary kids tell Sigs enjoy madness about their lives Pages 10-11 The Grove City College Newspaper Page 12 Debate Wolverines swim into sixth College finishes stands strong firm By Jimmy Van Eerden By Sarah Beth Gross Collegian Writer Collegian Managing Editor “Grove City College has entered Although the recent economic the new sphere of inter-collegiate recession seems to affect every activity. Although the decision aspect of daily life, one area in went to our opponents, [the] Grove which the economy’s impact has City men feel that in reality they been deterred is the operation of have won a greater victory for the Grove City College. college … if present indications One reason that the College is foretell anything, Grove City not significantly affected by the College must be reckoned with in economic troubles stems from the future in inter-collegiate debat- the fact that the College does not ing.” accept federal funding. The April 4, 1913, edition of The “We do not take federal or Collegian opened with these words state monies. Thousands and after the inception of Grove City Ryan Briggs Senior Caleb Courage set a new NCAA record in the 100-meter freestyle at the NCAA Division thousands of other colleges and College inter-collegiate debate III championships last week. Courage concludes his Grove City swimming career as a three-time universities do. As a result of See Debate, page 5 national champion in that event, and has received 18 All-American honors. Full story on page 20. -
June 10, 1936 D-)Ar Mr
"*». # EJCtMCL June 10, 1936 RBOOKDED - — / & Mr* J« Howard Pew, IlSDBA&w Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. D-)ar Mr. Pew: - I 1 I want to thank you for your letter of Jun 3, 1936, in -which you so graciously commend me onray / address given at the dinner of the thirtieth Annual :,JJ Convention of the Boys' Clubs of America at Philadelphia i recently, I am glad to note that you are preparing copies of this address for distribution, but in order to obviate this labor on your part I am forwarding to you, under another oovor, twenty-five copies of the above address, I shall be pleased to send any additional number you may request, I am deeply appreciative of your invitation to spend a week-end at your country place and assure you that I am keeping your kind offer in mind, With best wishes and kind regards, I am Sincerely yours, <M9(Rev. 10-1-71) Tolson Felt Rosen _ Mohr Bishop Miller, E.S. Callahan Casper Conrad Dalbey Cleveland _ Ponder Bates Tavel Walters Soyars Tele. Room Holmes Gandy • II By Martin Weil It has become one of the Washington Post Staff Writer nation'js 50 top companies,' , S. Howard Pew, 89, presi with more than 28,000 em dent for 35 years of. the ployees and reported sales ; giant Sun Oil Co. and an-ac last year'Of $1.9 billion. Shortly after Mr. Pew tive Presbyterian layman, joined the company he was. !died yesterday at his home credited with developing a fin Ardmore, Pa., one of Phil .process for producing qual adelphia's Main Line sub ity lubricants from asphaltlc. -
Refinery Story Draft.Indd
Taking Care of Our Own: How Democrats, Republicans, Business, and Labor Saved Thousands of Jobs and Our Refi neries Patrick Kerkstra Center on Regional Politics Taking Care of Our Own: How Democrats, Republicans, Business, and Labor Saved Thousands of Jobs and Our Refi neries Patrick Kerkstra Center on Regional Politics /Julia Wilkinson /Julia Delaware County Daily Times Daily County Delaware Refi nery supporters march in Marcus Hook in November 2011. I’ve been knocking on the door that holds the throne I’ve been looking for the map that leads me home I’ve been stumbling on good hearts turned to stone Th e road of good intentions has gone dry as a bone We take care of our own We take care of our own Wherever this fl ag’s fl own We take care of our own - Bruce Springsteen, “We Take Care Of Our Own” “We Take Care Of Our Own” by Bruce Springsteen. Copyright © 2012 Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP). Reprinted by permission. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. CONTENTS Foreword i Acknowledgments iii Chapter 1: The Flares Are Still Burning 1 Chapter 2: You’ve Got Mail 4 Chapter 3: Warning Signs 6 Chapter 4: Stakeholders Coalesce 8 Chapter 5: Artful Arm-Twisting 10 Chapter 6: Labor’s Play: Pressure & Restrain 12 Chapter 7: Calling Corbett 16 Chapter 8: The State Steps Up 18 Chapter 9: Trouble River 20 Chapter 10: Delta’s Need-to-Know Gambit 22 Chapter 11: A Combative Turning Point 25 Chapter 12: High Level Intervention 27 Chapter 13: Brass Tacks 30 Chapter 14: Turning the Page in Marcus Hook 33 Chapter 15: Lessons 36 Chapter 16: “It’s Just Astounding” 38 FOREWORD “It’s just astounding.” Th ose are the fi nal words in Patrick Kerkstra’s story of how, against long odds, the oil refi neries on the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers were saved from closures that would have jeopardized the livelihoods of thousands of workers and their families, destroyed whole communities, and severely damaged the regional economy. -
A Guide to Archival Collections
Business History in the United States: A Guide to Archival Collections GHI Reference Guide | 25 13 Preface 15 About the Editor 19 Archival Collections (arranged alphabetically by state and city) 19 ALABAMA Birmingham 1. Birmingham Jeff erson History Museum Montgomery 2. Alabama Department of Archives and History Tuscaloosa 3. University of Alabama 23 ALASKA Anchorage 4. University of Alaska, Anchorage Juneau 5. Alaska State Library 25 ARIZONA Tempe 6. Arizona Historical Foundation Tucson 7. Arizona Historical Society 8. University of Arizona Libraries 28 ARKANSAS Fayetteville 9. Arkansas Historical Association 10. University of Arkansas 29 CALIFORNIA Berkeley 11. Institute of Industrial Relations Library Beverly Hills 12. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Burbank 13. Walt Disney Archives Carson 14. California State University, Dominguez Hills Davis 15. University of California, Davis Fresno 16. California State University, Fresno Mountain View 17. Computer History Museum Stanford 18. Stanford University 43 COLORADO Castle Rock 19. Douglas County Libraries Colorado Springs 20. Old Colorado City Historical Society Denver 21. Colorado Historical Society 45 CONNECTICUT Bloomfi eld 22. CIGNA Corporation Hartford 23. Connecticut Historical Society 24. Connecticut State Library Mystic 25. Mystic Seaport – The Museum of America and the Sea Storrs 26. University of Connecticut Libraries 58 DELAWARE Wilmington 27. Delaware Historical Society 28. Hagley Museum and Library Winterthur 29. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 2 GHI REFERENCE GUIDE | 25 74 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington 30. George Washington University 31. Georgetown University 32. Historical Society of Washington, DC 33. International Monetary Fund 34. Library of Congress 35. National Archives and Records Administration 36. National Building Museum 37.