Grocery industry. He was involved in nails which was a big big thing in wheeling. Whealing made and produced a lot of cut nails. Being low kated on the National Road and with the river, which was a major highway and, also with the railroads, cut nails were used to produce and to produce and make all the things out west. So this was an important part of our industry here. At that time, being an industrialist meant that you were an entrepreneur. That you saw the opportunity to make money and knew kind of the connections and the people to work with at that time. And mr. Ogelbee had all of those advantages. When he was a young man, he succeeded his father as a Bank President a a bank in wheeling called the North Western bank of virginia. And he succeeded his dad as president in 1876 he was 28 years old and the youngest Bank President in the united states. And he saw at that time the opportunity that people were getting into iron and steel and coal and iron ore and he kind of realized where
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