Charles [2nd] E. Smith

Source: Downloaded Feb. 3, 2013 from Memoir of Charles E. Smith: president of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad and iron master. 1820 to 1900, published in Buffalo, NY, by The Matthews-Northrup works, 1902, 83 pages, Google Books.

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Charles Eastwick Smith was educated at Friends' School, Westtown, PA. At 18 years of age he was engineer in constructing railroad from coal-mines at Blossburg, PA, and afterward bcame Superintendent of it and the mines. In 1844 he returned to Philadelphia, and in 1846 built the Fairmount Rolling-Mill; he sold his interest to his partners and became manager of the Rensselaer Iron-Works, Troy, NY, the first works in the state to make railroad iron. In 1849 he made report to the Convention of Iron Masters in Philadelphia, the basis of the iron and steel association of the United States to-day. (See Magazine of Western History, vol. viii, Oct. 1888.) In 1861 he was chosen President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, which position he held throughout the Civil War, and resigned in 1869. He was President of the Union League of Philadelphia during 1877-78. Was one of the originators of the School of Design for Women, first established at the northeast corner of Eighth and Walnut streets, and now located at the southwest corner of Broad and Master Streets. He was also one of four persons who originated the Academy of Music of Philadelphia. A daily newspaper speaks of him as having "great energy, sterling integrity, and large business experience and capacity."

Source: Downloaded February 3, 2013, from The Quaker Ogdens in America: David Ogden of ye goode ship "Welcome" and his ..., by Charles Burr Ogden, Charles Smith Ogden, page 97.

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