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Williamsport businessman and civic leader Peter Herdic, circa 1870.
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An oval portrait of Peter Herdic, seated.

Credit: Courtesy of the Lycoming County Historical Society and The Thomas T. Taber Museum.

Williamsport's premier entrepreneur, Peter Herdic, became a millionaire in the lumber business, and soon expanded into real estate, eventually owning part of nearly every business in town, including the water works, gas works, newspaper, the Susquehanna Boom Company and the Herdic House Hotel. The third mayor of Williamsport, he also became known for his philanthropy and for his invention of "the Herdic," a horse-drawn carriage that was a forerunner of the taxicab.

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