John Roach (shipbuilder)
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John Roach (shipbuilder)
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John Roach was an American industrialist who rose from humble origins as an Irish immigrant laborer to found the largest and most productive shipbuilding empire in the Reconstruction Era United States, John Roach & Sons. Roach emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen in 1832, eventually finding employment at the Howell Works of James P. Allaire in New Jersey, where he learned the ironmolder's trade. Following an abortive attempt at farming in Illinois in 1839, Roach returned to Allai
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Irish-American industrialist (1815–1887)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roach_(shipbuilder)
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2024-04-01T22:03:39Z
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