found: Battis, R.A. Technological innovation and econ. change in the iron industry ... 1989:CIP introd. (Thomas Iron Company; located in the Lehigh Valley; sold to Drexel and Co., in July 1922 after an existence of 66 years)
found: Thomas Iron Company, Thomas Iron Company, 1854-1904 :p. 3, 5, 63 (Thomas Iron Company; first meeting, February 14, 1854; organized as a general partnership, February 28, 1854; incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania, April 4, 1854; blast furnaces at Hokendauqua, Alburtis, Island Park in the borough of Glendon, and Hellertown, Pa.; in 1856 purchased the Richard Mine on the Mount Hope Tract in Morris County, N.J.)
found: Pennsylvania Division of Corporations entity search, viewed via www, November 10, 2015 :(Thomas Iron Company; charter withdrawn, consolidated-inactive, June 17, 1942)
found: Moody's industrials manual, 1925 :p. 1610 (Reading Iron Company acquired the Thomas Iron Company with a furnace at Hokendauqua, Pa., and iron mines near Wharton, N.J., April 1924)
found: Dale Charles Wint, A history of the iron industry and allied businesses of the iron borough, Catasauqua Pennsylvania, 1993, viewed via www, November 11, 2015 :p. 26-27 (stock sold to Drexel and Company, June 30, 1922; they subsequently sold the company's stock in the Ironton Railroad and sold the company to the Reading Iron Company, which gradually sold the assets; charter surrendered to the state in June 1942)