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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE FIRST MANUFACTURING CORPORATION. The Waltham Company?The Lowell Family?Judge Lowell?John Lowell? Francis C. Lowell?Patrick T. Jackson?Nathan Appleton?Introduction of the Power-Loom?Paul Moody?Death of Francis C. Lowell?John Lowell, Junior. One of the most interesting events connected with the early history of the Cotton Manufacture in America, was the introduction of the power-loom, in 1814, at Waltham. The chief actor in this enterprise was Francis Cabot Lowell, from whom our city was so appropriately named. Among the others were Patrick Tracy Jackson, Nathan Appleton, and Paul Moody, who afterward became the fathers of Lowell, and introduced here the Waltham system, in all its details of factory machinery, factory boarding-houses, and wages paid monthly in cash. Some account of these men and of this Waltham enterprise must therefore be given before we proceed to the building of the mills at Lowell. The Lowells are among the most distinguished families in America, and are the descendants of Percival Lowell, who emigrated from Cleaveland, near Bristol, in England, and settled in Newbury in 1639. The first member of this family who achieved any particular distinction was the Hon. John Lowell, father of Francis Cabot Lowell, and son of the Eev. John Lowell, the first minister of Newburyport. He was a leading member of the Provincial Assembly in 1776, and of the Convention which framed the Constitution of Massachusetts in 1780. He was the principal champion of the movement for the abolition of slavery in this State in 1783,?an active and influential member of the Continental Congress,? Judge of the Court of Appeals in Admiralty, appointed by Congress,?and the first Judge of the District Court of Massachusetts, by appointment of President Washington. ...
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