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Re: (erielack) hospital
I'm on vacation and my notes are home, but the DL&W of Moses Taylor is the
DL&W Coal Co. ot the railroad per se. The DL&W was very
Christian/paternalistic in outlook (no trains/no mining on Sunday) in the
atyle of 19th-Century Social Gospel Protestants.
Cheers,
Jim Guthrie
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Heimbach" <plh5_@_charter.net>
To: <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:19 PM
Subject: (erielack) hospital
>
> The DL&W in the 19th Century by Taber pages 204, 205 and 206 describes
> very well how Moses Taylor backed and set up the free hospital for the
> employees of the DL&W RR and Lackawanna Iron & Steel Co. and families
> wholly dependent upon them.
>
> Pete Heimbach
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