At 08:12 AM 6/23/1999 -0400, you wrote: >Any further information on you Isaac Shay? >Earl > > Earl, Sorry for not writing sooner. I went through my files and discovered I did have more information on Isaac Shay. It's not much, but every little bit helps. The information was sent to me in 1994 by a researcher who obtained it at the Lebanon County Historical Society. I hope this information is some help to you. >From "Shay Family File" Isaac E. Shay (son of Thomas Shay 1780-1865, miner, Cornwall, Pa) b. 1826; d. 15 Aug 1862 m. Mary Rosenberger, 30 July 1846 Lebanon Boro The following from the Lebanon Courier, p. 78, contradicts the date above so I don't know which one is correct" 02 Sep. 1846, Isaac E. Shay married Mary Rosenberger, both of Cornwall, married in Lebanon Boro by Rev. John Roth >From Salem Lutheran Church, Lebanon p. 146: 27 Aug 1837: Thomas Shay married Susan Rosenberger >From "The Iron Industries of Lebanon County" June 17, 1904, Vol. III. No. 1.: The North Lebanon Foundry. "The North Lebanon Foundry was built in 1849 by Messrs. John Shay, John Thomas and Cyrus Mutch on land temporarily leased from the Mifflin Estate, on the northwest corner of Walnut (now North Eighth street) and Water streets, in the town of North Lebanon. Mr. Shay withdrew from the firm shortly thereafter. In 1851 Mr. Thomas Forster, who had previously been manager of Cornwall Charcoal Furnace, purchased the interest of Mr. Thomas, and the name of the firm became Forster & Mutch, who conducted a general foundry business up to 1864, when Mr. Mutch withdrew from the firm, selling his interest to Mr. Forster, who conducted the business up to January, 1868, when he sold the plant to Messrs. Rosenberger, Light & Co. The latter firm conducted the business for a time when, owing to financial difficulties, the property was sold to Messrs. Reinoehl & Meily in January, 1875, who shortly thereafter sold it to Messrs. Samuel Light, Ezekiel Light, Stephen Light, Gideon Light, Daniel W. Zellers and H. B. Westenberger who, on March 11, 1882, sold the plant to the Lebanon Stove Works Company, who are now conducting the business of making stoves and other castings. During the ownership of Messrs. Rosenberger & Light the foundry was destroyed by fire, and in its place a large and commodious brick building was erected for foundry purposes." The researcher stated, "Using the Lebanon City Directories, I determined that Stephen Light was his (William Rosenberger) partner in the foundry in 1874. In 1885 Light was superintendent of the lebanon Stove Works at 8th and Guilford." Note: William Rosenberger is the ancestor I am researching.