History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) (1922)
Boston : Frank P. Bennett · leaf 261
d as assistant many years in the Gen-eral Assembly at Newport. The Jenks family have been engaged iniron founding and manufacturing without in-terruption, from the days of Joseph Jenksof Lynn to the present time. Alvin Jenks moved to Central Falls fromPawtucket, and in 1830 entered into… … Works of Fales & Jenks Machine Co., Pawtucket, R. I. in 1642, and established at Lynn, Mass.,in the following year the first iron and steelworks on the Western Continent. In 1646Joseph Jenks obtained from the GeneralCourt of Massachusetts Bay Colony the firstpatent granted in America. His son,…
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