The ironworks employed dozens if not hundreds of local workers, while its use of locally obtained iron ore employed yet others in the greater metro Erie area.
[2] The company was renamed several times, including the Erie City Iron Works.
In 1876 it became the joint stock company Chicago and Erie Stove Company, Ltd, which was also known as the Chicago and Erie Stove Works.
On 22 December 1839, he founded a Sunday School for African Americans and the destitute.
He operated the school, which came to be known as the Himrod Mission, for nearly twenty years despite how it directly conflicted with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.