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 62
summer, and he in a small way engaged in farming, and by 1862 his work-ing capital was three hundred dollars. He then procured in Highlandville(Needham Heights) a desirable piece of land, for which he paid $175.Upon this, he erected a house, a portion of which he occupied and rented thebalance. The… … 0,^/2/r/^y (J a^^^ls-ty OF THE UNITED STATES. 31 iobbers In two years, he had succeeded in saving a sufficient amount to coverthe purchase of another knitting frame, and Isaac White, one of his neigh-bors, was taught to operate it. The business was added to, frame by frameand operator by operator,…
Textile industry -- United States · Industrialists
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