Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; (1916)
Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917, Foster, E. Everton, Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858 · Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company · leaf 526
awba River, two and one-half miles south of Lin-colnton. To this factory, customers came in wagons over a hundred milesto trade for spun cotton. In 1835, Michael Schenck and Dr. Bivings soldout to Col. John Hoke, and Mr. Schenck retired from business, which, be-sides the cotton mill, consisted of a… … 2(N ^^ ^ I- ^ I- ^ t. Si ^ OF THE UNITED STATES. 331 It was in 1815 that the seventy-five spindles of the original Schenck millbegan to sing a song of progress to the waters of the Catawba which carriedthe echo down the river. It did not cease to sound in the ears of the dwellersalong the banks,…
Textile industry -- United States · Industrialists
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