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Coleman was born and raised in Castlefin in County Donegal in the north-west of Ulster, the northern province in Ireland; he was one of eight children of Thomas Coleman. [2] Although born in Ireland, his family was English. [3] He immigrated to America, arriving in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania in 1764 when he was sixteen years old. [4]
Robert Poole (1818-1903) was an Irish-born engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and benefactor. In 1843 he founded an ironworks in Baltimore, Maryland.For his workforce he hired members of what would become the first generation of modern metalworkers (machinists, molders, patternmakers, and boilermakers)—an emerging trade whose numbers would swell to 250,000 nationally by the end of the 19th ...
Henry Ford & Son Limited (commonly referred to as Ford Ireland) [1] is the Irish subsidiary of the United States–based automaker Ford Motor Company. It formerly operated an assembly plant for motor vehicles and was part of the automotive industry in Ireland .
The company founder, Benjamin Moore, was born in Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1855. In 1872, Moore immigrated to the United States and settled in New York, N.Y. After working in the paint industry, Benjamin and his brother, William, founded Moore Brothers in 1883 with an initial investment of approximately $2,000.
Robert Owen was born in Newtown, a small market town in Montgomeryshire, Wales, on 14 May 1771, to Anne (Williams) and Robert Owen. His father was a saddler , ironmonger and local postmaster; his mother was the daughter of a Newtown farming family.
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From 1945 to 1960 Ireland missed out on the European economic boom across Europe, and 500,000 people emigrated. A major policy change followed the issue of TK Whitaker's economic model in 1958, and the Republic slowly embraced the industrial world. Most Irish exports continued to go to Britain until 1969.
Robert Hope-Jones, Elmira, New York Holtkamp Organ Company , Cleveland, Ohio Johnson Organs , Westfield, Massachusetts – first William A. Johnson Organ Company , then Johnson & Son Organ Company (c. 1871-1898)