George was born 1812 in Ireland
Naturalization of George Richards filed in Clearfield Co. Pennsylvania, state the following: George Richards arrived in the United States March 29, 1828. Filed for citizenship December 4, 1832, and granted Sept. 4, 1838. [Source: Clearfield Co. Clerk of Courts.] * Author's note: On the document attached to the Naturalization papers, which is the page of the court docket, it states that the place of Nativity was Ireland. This is the only record to date to which George Richards himself provided the information.
George Richards begins to hunt for coal in the higher elevations of the gap traversed by Pa. Rte 865. This he does by following the streams up hill and searching for certain rock types and fossils, checking out the hillsides they cut through as well. At this time there were no books or writings of any kind to guide him, but he knows the rock strata above and below the coal beds near Karthaus, and finds the underclay he is looking for in a branch of Bell's Run now called Bear Loop Run approx 1.75 miles south of Lloydville. ( By the way, he was a genius!! Doing this detective work requires both accurate observation and ordered, independent, logical thinking. Most coal deposits were known even to the Indians who lived on the land before European settlers came, but this one was not. No one knew it was there, but Richards tracked it down with his sharp eyes and mind!! The slate layers surrounding it always collapse over the exposed coal. ) Not only that, but he soon found *** all three coals of the Allegheny Formation*** in the same mountainside. ( That is why his heirs repeat that he made three openings on coal before he died.) These exist at different heights and you have to recognize their locations from the profile and surface rocks of a hill. Not all three of them were evident at Karthaus. George is capable of learning new tricks no one taught him!!
He was the husband of Charlotta (Charlotte) Bellman Richards 1813-aft 1900
Naturalization of George Richards filed in Clearfield Co. Pennsylvania, state the following: George Richards arrived in the United States March 29, 1828. Filed for citizenship December 4, 1832, and granted Sept. 4, 1838. [Source: Clearfield Co. Clerk of Courts.] * Author's note: On the document attached to the Naturalization papers, which is the page of the court docket, it states that the place of Nativity was Ireland. This is the only record to date to which George Richards himself provided the information.
George Richards begins to hunt for coal in the higher elevations of the gap traversed by Pa. Rte 865. This he does by following the streams up hill and searching for certain rock types and fossils, checking out the hillsides they cut through as well. At this time there were no books or writings of any kind to guide him, but he knows the rock strata above and below the coal beds near Karthaus, and finds the underclay he is looking for in a branch of Bell's Run now called Bear Loop Run approx 1.75 miles south of Lloydville. ( By the way, he was a genius!! Doing this detective work requires both accurate observation and ordered, independent, logical thinking. Most coal deposits were known even to the Indians who lived on the land before European settlers came, but this one was not. No one knew it was there, but Richards tracked it down with his sharp eyes and mind!! The slate layers surrounding it always collapse over the exposed coal. ) Not only that, but he soon found *** all three coals of the Allegheny Formation*** in the same mountainside. ( That is why his heirs repeat that he made three openings on coal before he died.) These exist at different heights and you have to recognize their locations from the profile and surface rocks of a hill. Not all three of them were evident at Karthaus. George is capable of learning new tricks no one taught him!!
He was the husband of Charlotta (Charlotte) Bellman Richards 1813-aft 1900
George was born 1812 in Ireland
Naturalization of George Richards filed in Clearfield Co. Pennsylvania, state the following: George Richards arrived in the United States March 29, 1828. Filed for citizenship December 4, 1832, and granted Sept. 4, 1838. [Source: Clearfield Co. Clerk of Courts.] * Author's note: On the document attached to the Naturalization papers, which is the page of the court docket, it states that the place of Nativity was Ireland. This is the only record to date to which George Richards himself provided the information.
George Richards begins to hunt for coal in the higher elevations of the gap traversed by Pa. Rte 865. This he does by following the streams up hill and searching for certain rock types and fossils, checking out the hillsides they cut through as well. At this time there were no books or writings of any kind to guide him, but he knows the rock strata above and below the coal beds near Karthaus, and finds the underclay he is looking for in a branch of Bell's Run now called Bear Loop Run approx 1.75 miles south of Lloydville. ( By the way, he was a genius!! Doing this detective work requires both accurate observation and ordered, independent, logical thinking. Most coal deposits were known even to the Indians who lived on the land before European settlers came, but this one was not. No one knew it was there, but Richards tracked it down with his sharp eyes and mind!! The slate layers surrounding it always collapse over the exposed coal. ) Not only that, but he soon found *** all three coals of the Allegheny Formation*** in the same mountainside. ( That is why his heirs repeat that he made three openings on coal before he died.) These exist at different heights and you have to recognize their locations from the profile and surface rocks of a hill. Not all three of them were evident at Karthaus. George is capable of learning new tricks no one taught him!!
He was the husband of Charlotta (Charlotte) Bellman Richards 1813-aft 1900
Naturalization of George Richards filed in Clearfield Co. Pennsylvania, state the following: George Richards arrived in the United States March 29, 1828. Filed for citizenship December 4, 1832, and granted Sept. 4, 1838. [Source: Clearfield Co. Clerk of Courts.] * Author's note: On the document attached to the Naturalization papers, which is the page of the court docket, it states that the place of Nativity was Ireland. This is the only record to date to which George Richards himself provided the information.
George Richards begins to hunt for coal in the higher elevations of the gap traversed by Pa. Rte 865. This he does by following the streams up hill and searching for certain rock types and fossils, checking out the hillsides they cut through as well. At this time there were no books or writings of any kind to guide him, but he knows the rock strata above and below the coal beds near Karthaus, and finds the underclay he is looking for in a branch of Bell's Run now called Bear Loop Run approx 1.75 miles south of Lloydville. ( By the way, he was a genius!! Doing this detective work requires both accurate observation and ordered, independent, logical thinking. Most coal deposits were known even to the Indians who lived on the land before European settlers came, but this one was not. No one knew it was there, but Richards tracked it down with his sharp eyes and mind!! The slate layers surrounding it always collapse over the exposed coal. ) Not only that, but he soon found *** all three coals of the Allegheny Formation*** in the same mountainside. ( That is why his heirs repeat that he made three openings on coal before he died.) These exist at different heights and you have to recognize their locations from the profile and surface rocks of a hill. Not all three of them were evident at Karthaus. George is capable of learning new tricks no one taught him!!
He was the husband of Charlotta (Charlotte) Bellman Richards 1813-aft 1900
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