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_John WURTS __________|
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_Albert WURTS _|
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_Jansen WURTS _|
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!Given name, birth abt., from Dale Wurts.
_John WURTS ____
_Samuel Grandin WURTS _|
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!She and her sister Lucy married brothers.
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!A founder of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and Railroad Companies. Transportation of anthracite coal was the main business of the D & H Canal Co.
!The Wurts brothers, Maurice, William, John and Charles, were pioneers in the mining, introduction and marketing of anthracite coal, and originators of the plans and projects out of which inevitably grew the Delaware and Hudson Canal and Railroad Companies of which they were founders, and caused to be built in England, and delivered to HONESDALE, Pa., the "Stourbridge Lion," the first steam locomotive to be operated in the Western Hemisphere, its trial trip taking place 8 August 1829.
Here is what the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1959, Vol. 17, p. 281, 282 has to say about the early locomotives:
"The early canal, quarry and coal mining engineers in the United States favoured the building of railroads as the result of their investigations in England at about the time that public opinion was being influenced in that direction there. About 1800 the people of the U.S. began to realize the need of highway and other intercommuniation as a means for developing the extensive unsettled districts of the country. The difficulty of constructing artificial waterways, the slowness of canal boats and the freezing of transportation channels for a considerable part of each year gave impetus to the movement. In 1828 John B. Jervis, chief engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Canal company, convinced of the feasibility of rail motive power, presented a plan to the management, with the result that Horatio Allen, assistant engineer, was sent to England to study railroad opperation and to contract for rails and locomotives. Jervis planned to bring the anthracite coal of the Susquehanna valley, by rail, into the valleys of the Delaware and the Hudson rivers, and on to the ocean.
Allen in 1828 contracted for four locomotives. The locomotive "America," furnished by Robert Stephenson and company, arrived in New York city on Jan. 15, 1829. It was transported up the Hudson river and through the canal from Rondout and cleared Eddyville on July 16, 1829. There its record is lost and, so far as is known, it was never opperated in the U.S. The other three locomotives, built by Foster, Rastrick and company of Stourbridge, Eng., were the "Stourbridge Lion," "Delaware," and "Hudson." The "Stourbridge Lion" reached New York on May 13th, 1829. It was transportd up the Hudson to Rondout, and by canal to Honesdale, Pa. It was set up and made a trial trip on Aug. 8, 1829, this being the first operation of a locomotive in the western hemisphere. The second and third locomotives from Foster, Rastrick and company arrived in New York on Aug. 9 and Sept. 17, 1829, respectively."
I have heard that the "Stourbridge Lion" is displayed in the Smithsonian Institute, although I am not certain whether it is the original, a reconstruction, or a replica.
_Samuel Grandin WURTS _
_Samuel Grandin WURTS _|
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_William WURTS __|
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!Never married per James E. B. Kimble.
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