[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] plates and old plow castings instead. The cupola which he used to contain the melted iron could be carried around by two men, and the melted fluid was poured from it into the moulds over a lip shaped like that of a pitcher. He used coke and charcoal in melting his iron, and prepared his own coke in a little oven which stood in the rear of his second foundry. Gregory afterwards moved to Bridgeport, Conn., and started another foundry. He subsequently opera-ted a foundry in Port Chester, and from that place came to Tarrytown, where he was not engaged in business. From Tarrytown he returned to Peekskill, where he died in 1847, aged fifty-seven years. The foundry was bought by Gregory's brother and lay idle until purchased, about 1825 by James Wiley. About 1828 James Wiley died, and his brother, Bern-ard and Eber Conklin succeeded him, under the firm-name of Wiley & Conklin, James H. Conklin being probably a silent partner. The paper-mill of Gross & Ritter, at Annsville, having burned down, Wiley & Couklin built a foundry on its site, and moved thither about 1831. February 1, 1834, James H. Conklin and James Taylor were admitted as partners, the firm becoming Wiley, Conklin & Co. In 1835 ii. — 36 they moved back to Peekskill and occupied a build-ing on the east side of Division Street, about fifty feet south of the present National Bank-In the same year Reuben R. Finch, who had formerly kept a dry-goods store in Peekskill, became a partner.