Gorson, Aaron Harry (Lithuanian/American/Western PA, 1872-1933), Shoenberger Works, 1910, oil on canvas, relined, 22 x 18 inches, signed and dated lower left, framed in a deeply carved and high relief period arts and crafts frame measuring 30 x 26 inches. Dr. Peter Shoenberger, called the 'Iron King of Pittsburgh,' was the son of Jacob Shoenberger, who came from Manheim, Germany; Dr. Shoenberger was a physician living near Tyrone, PA; while travelling about in his gig he saw the wealth of outcropping iron, and quietly bought up land until he had a large holding. He began smelting operations in a small way, laying the foundations of the Cambria Iron Works of Johnstown; in 1924 he moved to Pittsburgh, giving up medicine, devoting all his attention to the manufacture of iron. He owned seven furnaces in Center and Huntingdon Counties. He died in Germantown, Philadelphia, in 1854 aged sixty-four. His son, John, carried on the iron works until he sold out to the Steel Trust; certain products are still known to the trade by the name of Shoenberger and the town of that name in Western Pennsylvania still stands a memorial to the enterprise of Dr. Peter Shoenberger.