Colliery Engineer

Several newspaper articles about Terrence Anderson (1856-1899) mention that he worked as a colliery engineer for the Delaware & Hudson Mine.

What is a colliery engineer? Colliery refers to coal mining, so Terrence was a coal mining engineer.
This 1910 Colliery Engineer Manual  looks like a manual Terrence may have used in his work. A colliery engineer had to be educated and highly skilled in geometry, trigonometry, measurements, weights, and management.

Terrence, therefore, wasn't just a common miner, but an extremely skilled one, entrusted with great responsibility, who would have been paid a good wage. 



References

 "Terrence Anderson of Pierce Hill," Wilkes-Barre News, 14 September 1898; digital database Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com: accessed 3 December 2018).

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