With the help from this obituary from October 16, 1893 in the Reading Eagle Newspaper, I was able to ascertain, exactly, what my Great, Great, Great Grandfather, Francis Hillanbrand had as an occupation. I knew he was an engineer, but this obituary said he was a hoist engineer. He would lower men and equipment, down through the mine shaft via the hoist elevators. His was the last face that the miners would see, before he would lower them below. The picture on the right is one of the hoists left in Mahanoy Plane. He had worked at the Lawrence Colliery, which was abandoned in the 1930s.