In 1891, Henri Haubry was thirty-one when he hosted the renowned French anarchist orator Joseph Tortelier, who was on tour, at his home in Lilly, a small coal town in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, with barely a thousand residents. This county was one of the most productive in the region, with fifty-one mines employing over 5,100 miners who extracted more than 3 million tons of coal that year.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful history! I was unaware of a lot of this and I’m excited to look into it more.