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Commemorative biographical record of Washington County, Pennsylvania, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families by J.H. Beers & Co

History of Washington County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men by Crumrine, Boyd, 1838-1916

http://www.chartiers.com/crumrine/twp-wbethlehem.html

History of the Bureau of Mines

Newspapers by Ancestry

A Bicentennial History of West Beth Township and Marianna Borough-1776-1976




PittBuff.com

Ten Mile Creek Country

Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission Mine Accident Registers 

United States Mine Disasters

Marianna Historic District

Report of the Dept of Mines of Pa-Hathi Trust Digital Library

The Black Diamond-Volume 44

Moorehead's Quarterly Record-Volumes 1 -2

Report of bureau of 1900 Pennsylvania

Pa Annual Report of Mines by Year 1870-1979

Report of the Department of Mines of Pa Bituminous 2

Coal-mine fatalities in the United States, 1870-1914

Bugdust and Blackdamp Life and Work in The Old Coal Patch by Thomas H. Coode

T. R Johns Papers

Fire and Water Engineering, Volume 44 (Marianna Coal Mine Disaster)

Hellraisers Journal: Coal Miners Perish in Explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania; Brave Rescuers Battle Flames

Hellraisers Journal: Report Continues from Gertrude Gordon at Marianna Mine Disaster: Story of Lone Survivor

Guide to the United Mine Workers of America, District #5 Papers, 1896-1984

Preventing "The Needless Peril of the Coal Mine": The Bureau of Mines and the Campaign against Coal Mine Explosions, 1910-1940

Worker Solidarity, Judicial Oppression, and Police Repression in the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Coal Miner's Strike, 1910-11

The Charity Organization Review Page 351 1908

Rootsweb-Bulkley&Cottrell 15Jan10

The Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioner of the Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania-1909 and 1911- Part 1 and 2

Mennonite family history January 2016

Marianna-Tribune Review









Necciai, Terry, Brown, Mark M., Washington County History and Landmarks Foundation, Marianna Historic District, nomination document, 1984, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.

Obituary for James Jones, Coal Age, vol.1, 23 March 1912, p.794.

The Wise Family-Text taken from page 256 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Washington County Historical Society archives.




Other interests:

The Tower, North Ten Mile Baptist Church, March, 1972.

Bauman, John F. "Ethnic Adaptation in a Southwestern Pennsylvania Coal Patch, 1910-1940." The Journal of Ethnic Studies, vol.7, no.3 (Fall 1979), pp.1-23.

Coode, Thomas, H., and John F. Bauman. People, Poverty, and Politics: Pennsylvanians During the Great Depression. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1981.

"Disaster at Marianna is Cruel Stab of Fate." Pittsburgh Post, 30 November 1908, p.5, col.1.

Enman, J.A. "The Shape, Structure, and Function of a Pennsylvania Company Town." Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science, vol.42, 1968, pp.167-170.
Hall, R. Dawson. "Collieries on the Ellsworth Branch." Coal Age, vol.1, 21 October 1911, pp.34-37.

Hyser, Raymond, M. "Discord in Utopia: The Ellsworth Strike of 1904." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol.106, no.3 (July 1982), pp.393-409.
Magnusson, Leifur. "Company Housing." Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 1921 ed.

"Mine Congress Will See Only Wrecked Show Plant." Pittsburgh Dispatch, 30 November 1908, p.6, cols.2-3.

Munn, Robert F. "The Development of Model Towns in the Bituminous Coal Fields." West Virginia History, vol.40, no.3 (1979), pp.243-253.


United States Coal Commission, Report. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1925.







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