The Republic was considered less safe than the Continent by these good people.

My brother and Mr.Phipps conducted the iron business so successfully that I could leave for weeks at a time without anxiety.
There was danger lest I should drift away from the manufacturing to the financial and banking business.

My successes abroad brought me tempting opportunities, but my preference was always for manufacturing.

I wished to make something tangible and sell it and I continued to invest my profits in extending the works at Pittsburgh.
The small shops put up originally for the Keystone Bridge Company had been leased for other purposes and ten acres of ground had been secured in Lawrenceville on which new and extensive shops were erected.

Repeated additions to the Union Iron Mills had made them the leading mills in the United States for all sorts of structural shapes.
Business was promising and all the surplus earnings I was making in other fields were required to expand the iron business.