Hodgkiss, Mr. - 1845

Carbon County Mines – Port Carbon
There are several coal mines contiguous to it; one owned by Michael McDormut, worked by Charles Ellett, with a slope six hundred feet deep, and two stationary engines; one immediately above Port Carbon, on the North American company lands, worked by Mr. Chillas. This mine was set on fire some twelve years ago, and burned for some time; but has been again re-opened, and now successfully worked under the superintendence of Mr. Hodgkiss. It has a drift of three hundred and fifty yards in length.

~ History of Carbon County Pennsylvania, 1845, Page 294

Chillas, Mr. - 1845

Carbon County Mines – Port Carbon
There are several coal mines contiguous to it; one owned by Michael McDormut, worked by Charles Ellett, with a slope six hundred feet deep, and two stationary engines; one immediately above Port Carbon, on the North American company lands, worked by Mr. Chillas. This mine was set on fire some twelve years ago, and burned for some time; but has been again re-opened, and now successfully worked under the superintendence of Mr. Hodgkiss. It has a drift of three hundred and fifty yards in length.

~ History of Carbon County Pennsylvania, 1845, Page 294

Ellett, Charles - 1845

Carbon County Mines – Port Carbon
There are several coal mines contiguous to it; one owned by Michael McDormut, worked by Charles Ellett, with a slope six hundred feet deep, and two stationary engines; one immediately above Port Carbon, on the North American company lands, worked by Mr. Chillas. This mine was set on fire some twelve years ago, and burned for some time; but has been again re-opened, and now successfully worked under the superintendence of Mr. Hodgkiss. It has a drift of three hundred and fifty yards in length.

~ History of Carbon County Pennsylvania, 1845, Page 294

McDormut, Michael - 1854

Carbon County Mines – Port Carbon
There are several coal mines contiguous to it; one owned by Michael McDormut, worked by Charles Ellett, with a slope six hundred feet deep, and two stationary engines; one immediately above Port Carbon, on the North American company lands, worked by Mr. Chillas. This mine was set on fire some twelve years ago, and burned for some time; but has been again re-opened, and now successfully worked under the superintendence of Mr. Hodgkiss. It has a drift of three hundred and fifty yards in length.

~ History of Carbon County Pennsylvania, 1845, Page 294

Port Carbon, Carbon County Pennsylvania

Carbon County Mines -- Port Carbon
There are several coal mines contiguous to it; one owned by Michael McDormut, worked by Charles Ellett, with a slope six hundred feet deep, and two stationary engines; one immediately above Port Carbon, on the North American company lands, worked by Mr. Chillas. This mine was set on fire some twelve years ago, and burned for some time; but has been again re-opened, and now successfully worked under the superintendence of Mr. Hodgkiss. It has a drift of three hundred and fifty yards in length.

~ History of Carbon County Pennsylvania, 1845, Page 294

Beaver Meadow, Carbon County Pennsylvania

Carbon County Mines -- Beaver Meadow
The Beaver Meadow coal mines, which were opened in 1813, by Mr. Beach, of Salem, are about a mile and a half west of the village. The Stafford Coal Company have a mine nearer the village.

~ History of Carbon County Pennsylvania, 1845, Page 214

Siegfried, Lottie - 1919

18 Years Ago
Miss Lottie Siegfried, student nurse at the Palmerton Hospital, is recuperating from an operation that she recently underwent.
~ The Nazareth Item, 04-Mar-1937, Page 3, Column 3