Robert Waln Jr
Robert Waln, Jr. (1765-1836) inherited substantial property and business interests in Trenton upon the death of his father, Robert Waln, Sr., in 1784. Chief among these was the Trenton Mills, one of the largest merchant gristmills in the Delaware Valley. In 1814-15 Robert Waln, Jr. and his son Lewis also went on to found the Eagle Factory, Trenton’s first major textile mill, located immediately downstream of the gristmill on Assunpink Creek.
[credit: portrait by Robert Eichholtz, courtesy of City of
Philadelphia/Fairmount Park]