Hi Lee, I did find some interesting information online. Thank you for pointing me in that direction. The NY Times did have an old article, which was most interesting, and I had no idea that stove moulders were a highly specialized job. Nor did I know that they were unionized. Fascinating reading. This mailing list really is a gem. Julie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Connolly" <lconnolly5@yahoo.com> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Cooperative Stove Foundry Julie: My great grandfather Thomas Connolly worked at the Troy Cooperative Stove Factory---which was in his 1899 obituaty notice also. I wish I had made a note of the newspaper article that talked about the Troy Cooperative Stove Factory, but I believe it was an archived NY Times article and I may have Googled it under "Cooperative Iron Founder's Association" or something very similar. It was created in 1866 and was located at 867-869 River Street, as I recall, and for a while maintained a worker reading room and a store. I think it closed before my g grandfather died. For background among several resources, I read J Corsaro and K Roe on Labor and Industry in Troy and Cohoes...and David Montgomer's article :The Irish and the American Labor Movement." Hope this helps. --- On Sun, 11/30/08, Kris6851@aol.com <Kris6851@aol.com> wrote: From: Kris6851@aol.com <Kris6851@aol.com> Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Cooperative Stove Foundry To: ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 9:32 PM Someone else may have much more information for you Julie. But I just googled it and there is all kinds of information out there for you. Kris **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== Did you pay your 2008 Dues? Troy Irish Genealogy Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== Did you pay your 2008 Dues? Troy Irish Genealogy Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message