Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Clement Starr BRINTON
Brinton visited sites of early mills, photographed them, and delivered illustrated lectures to schools and community groups. He also copied images from other sources on lantern slides. The bulk of the collection deals with Pennsylvania (67 iron furnaces and mills represented), New Jersey (31 furnaces and ironworks), Alabama, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York. Other subjects include ironworks' ruins, ironmasters' houses, products such as stoves and cannon, outbuildings, reconstructions, iron-ore bogs, slag heaps, and diagrams and drawings of ironworks, mining, and charcoal manufacturing.
Clement first lived at West Chester, Penna., for about a year. In 1904 he moved to Washington, D.C., but left there in 1906 and settled in Haddonfield, N.J., where he has resided ever since. After working for the United States Government as food-inspector chemist for two years in Washington, he was transferred to Philadelphia as chemist in charge of the Department of Agriculture. Res. (1926) Haddonfield, N.J.
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