September 15th, 1848 manuscript letter written from the Iron Works in Cass County, Georgia addressed to Mr. Isaac H Parker, Newborn Newton Co. Georgia
Cass County (Bartow County), Georgia: n.p., 1848.
Letter. Letter. Approx. 10" x 8". 4 pages. 2 pages of content and one page with address. Paper is folded. A couple of light red partial wax seals on the address side. Good. Item #35414
Letter transcribed as best as possible:
Iron Works, Cass County Georgia Sept 15, 1848
Mr J. H. Parker
Dear Sir
Being absent from home when your letters arrived at the Post Office Is the cause of me not writing you sooner. The money for the machine came duly to hand I am sorry that I can not send you the castings for the machine Our Furnaces is not making good Iron And has not make any good Iron since your Order arrived from Mr Ford It requires good Iron for making the castings We will after stop our Furnances since week or two until we put in new hearth as soon as we get that done we send your castings right on I send your machine to Rail Road to day the the (repeated) agent said he would send it right on in a few days I hope that it reach you in due time The machine is New & it not cut so well at the start as it will when used a while I will be sirtain to send the casting as soon as their are made write to me soon as convient and to let know whether you have received the machine or not
Very Respectfully Yours [signed] Jacob D Shoup
N, B,
The castings you spoke of for Buggs &c cant be furnished at a short notice if you will send the pattens for the same when we get our Furnance in good fix? again Your J D S
We will send them to Rail Road four four cents per pound that will be much better than buying them in Augusta at 18 cts per pound Ours will be as neat ? any you can get from Augusta J D H
On the back side is the address
Iron Works, Ga Sept 18th
Mr Isaac H Parker Newborn P O Newton Co Georgia [END]
Georgia business man and industrialist Mark Anthony Cooper formed the Etowah Iron Works in present day Bartow County with Ironmakers Moses and Jacob Stroup in the 1840's. Etowah was located just north of Cartersville, Georgia in former Cass County. The Iron Works were destroyed by the Union Army in 1864 and after the War the area remained in ruins.
From from the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell:
"Moses Stroup, the eldest son of Jacob, was born in Lincoln County, N.C. With little formal schooling, he was brought up in the iron business. Many contemporaries considered him to be one of the "most expert furnacemen" in the South and a "remarkable genius" in the iron business, as well as a good money-maker but a "poor keeper." He accompanied his father to South Carolina about 1815, and when Jacob moved to Georgia in the late 1820s, Moses stayed behind. But in 1843 he joined his father at Cass County, Ga., and bought him out. Moses built a rolling mill and rolled some of the first railroad iron made in Georgia, some of which was used on the state-owned Western and Atlantic. In 1847 he sold the Cass County works to Mark Anthony Cooper and Company and shortly moved to Alabama, where he bought ore lands from the government and began the Round Mountain Furnace in 1849".
From wikipedia:
Bartow County was created from the Cherokee lands of the Cherokee County territory on December 3, 1832, and named Cass County, after General Lewis Cass (1782–1866) Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, Minister to France and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan,[3] who was instrumental in the removal of Native Americans from the area. However, the county was renamed on December 6, 1861, in honor of Francis S. Bartow because of Cass's support of the Union,[4] even though Bartow never visited in the county, living 200 miles (320 km) away near Savannah all of his life. Cass had supported the doctrine of popular sovereignty, the right of each state to determine its own laws independently of the Federal government, the platform of conservative Southerners who removed his name. The first county seat was at Cassville, but after the burning of the county courthouse and the Sherman Occupation, the seat moved to Cartersville, where it remains.
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