With his newly-wedded wife the deceased came to Lancaster and purchased the foundry which in that year - 1849 - stood on the northeast corner of Duke and Chestnut streets. Beates, a Lutheran minister, and at one time pastor of Zion's church, on Vine street. Here the estimable wife of the subject of this notice died.Īfter some years Mr. He subsequently became the junior member of the firm of Patterson, ,Smalls & Geiger, the Ashland furnace of Baltimore county, Maryland, having been built by Mr. Harford county, Maryland, was his next place of business, where he built the Sarah furnace, in which he again formed a partnership with the Smalls. Small, of York county, the firm running the Manor furnace in that county. On leaving this forge he became a partner with Messrs. Samuel Parke, a prominent Presbyterian minister, then stationed at Slate Ridge. Here he married Miss Ann Parke, daughter of Rev. He then went to York county and became manager of the Castle Finn forge in that county. At the age of nineteen he went to Pottsville, where he managed the forges and coal mines for the well-known Buckleys. In early life he entered the mill of Isaac Eckert, a prominent iron man of Berks county, and here he learned the milling business. Geiger was born near Geigerville, Berks county, about 1808, was educated in the common schools of Berks county in his early youth, and afterwards attended the school of Mr. The deceased was widely known through the county and also the eastern part of the State, having been for many years one of the largest and most prominent iron men in this section of the State. He had been ailing for some time, but was only confined to his bed for about three weeks. The immediate cause of death, in addition to his advanced age, he having been about 81 years old, was pneumonia. Christopher Geiger having died about six o'clock this morning at his residence, No. A Long Life of Prominence in the Iron Manufacturing Industry of Eastern Pennsylvania - A Well-known Farmer Drops Dead.Īnother of Lancaster's well-known citizen has passed to rest, Mr.
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