What is L. Lewis Sagendorph?
{{Infobox person | name = L. Lewis Sagendorph | image =L Lewis Sagendorph.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1842|09|26}} | birth_place = Hudson, New York, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1909|04|13|1842|09|26}} | death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = [[Inventor]], industrialist, businessman | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''L. Lewis Sagendorph''' (September 26, 1842 - April 13, 1909) was an American [[inventor]] and leading manufacturer of sheet metal products in the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. He founded what later became the Penn Metal Company in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. == Life and career == Longley Lewis Sagendorph, Jr. was born in Hudson, [[New York]] and later moved to Rhode Island where he served in the with the 10th Rhode Island Regiment in the American Civil War.<ref>{{cite book |last=Palliser |first=George |title=The Palliser's Late Victorian Architecture}}</ref> L. Lewis Sagendorph was buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web|title=L. Lewis Sagendorph, Jr.|website=[[Find a Grave]]|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91214809|access-date=October 1, 2015|archive-date=October 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007151834/http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91214809|url-status=dead}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} == Bibliography == * {{cite book| last= Parkersburg | first=W. Va| title=Seventy-fifth Penn Metal year, 1869-1944.|date=1944|publisher= Penn Metal Co.| oclc=20034058|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20034058}} * {{cite book|last=Sagendorph |first=Longley Lewis |title=Metal sectional ceilings and side wall decorations|date=1902|location=Philadelphia|publisher=McLaughlin Bros.|oclc=83479125 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83479125}} * {{cite book|last=Sagendorph |first=Longley Lewis |title=The Penn Metal