THE IRON WORKS The Keystone Works have always been my pet as being the parent of all the other works.

But they had not been long in existence before the advantage of wrought- over cast-iron became manifest.

Accordingly, to insure uniform quality, and also to make certain shapes which were not then to be obtained, we determined to embark in the manufacture of iron.

My brother and I became interested with Thomas N.Miller, Henry Phipps, and Andrew Kloman in a small iron mill.

Miller was the first to embark with Kloman and he brought Phipps in, lending him eight hundred dollars to buy a one-sixth interest, in November, 1861.
I must not fail to record that Mr.Miller was the pioneer of our iron manufacturing projects.