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Jesse F. Core
Pages 54-57

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... While still in college, he began work as a coal miner with Hillman Coal and Coke Company. In 1938 he joined Pittsburgh Coal Company as an engineer, rising through the ranks of chief mining engineer and divisional engineer.
From page 56...
... lie served as chairman of the Coal Division of the American Mining Congress and was a past president of the Coal Mining Institute of America and of the Mine Inspectors Institute of America. He was a cofounder and first chairman of the Keystone Bituminous Coal Association, a member of the National Mine Rescue Association, the Arr~erican Iron and Steel Institute, and the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute.
From page 57...
... Jesse loved all aspects of mining and was an active mining history buff. This included an intense interest in the history of coal mining in both anthracite and bituminous coal mines, the Molly Maguires, the clevelopment of the United Mine Workers of America, and in hard rock mines in both the Unitecl States and abroad.


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