My Genealogy Hound

HARRY TAMBLYN, Secretary of the Cornwall Mining & Smelting Company and agent of the Giant Powder Company, was born in county of Cornwall, England, in 1840, and was reared to the mining industry there. In 1865, he came to America and spent the first few years of his life in connection with the mining industry in this country and through Canada, principal among which were the Lake Superior copper mines, the Baryta mines of Connecticut, Lyman gold mine of New Hampshire, the Tillie Foster mines of New York, Beaver Meadow coal mines of Pennsylvania, Mongonia coal mines in Iowa, and New Pittsburg coal mines of Illinois, after which he took charge of the Cornish pump shaft in the Granby mines in Southwestern Missouri, and remained in connection with that industry until 1877, when he came here and joined the partnership in the purchase of the present lands. In 1879, they formed a joint stock company, and he has held the Secretaryship of it since. Mr. Tamblyn was the first agent appointed for this Western country by the Giant Powder Company. While at Granby he prosecuted the introduction of it to the mining profession successfully. He is now paying particular attention to the introduction of it in this locality.