Word: saxonburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupational Ailment. In Saxonburg, Pa., Susan Stewart, 100, was chosen "oldest [doughnut] dunker in America" by the National Dunking Association, but had to turn down a trip to New York because of chronic indigestion...
Every Jerseyman is proud of Roebling's. John August Roebling was a bearded, philosophy-loving German engineer who led a group of his friends to the U.S. in 1831 to escape political and religious oppression. Once the farming community they established at Saxonburg, Pa. was a success, he went back to engineering, made America's first wire rope. Soon he adapted it to building suspension bridges. After he spanned the gorge of the Niagara River at Buffalo in 1850, he and his company were famous...
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