Himler Coal Company

Its finances exhausted, the company was wiped out by flooding in 1928.

Himler Coal Company is remembered for its unique organizational structure, believed to be the only coal mining company ever organized on a cooperative basis.

On May 7, 1907, the S.S. Carpathia arrived at New York City carrying among its passengers an impoverished 18-year old ethnic Jew from Hungary, Martin Himler.

[1] The youth obtained his first job working in the coal mines of Thacker, West Virginia, before taking a similar job as a miner in Iselin, Pennsylvania.

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View of the Himler Coal Company's operation in Himlerville, Kentucky during the height of its activity in the 1920s.
Hungarian-American newspaper editor Martin Himler, organizer of the Himler Mining Company project.