Excerpt from The Davis and Furber Machine Company and the Men Who Made It, 1832-1908 North Andover early became noted for the patriotism, the states manship, the public spiritedness, and the enterprise of its citizens, among whom were Governor Bradstreet, Governor Phillips, and other Colonial dignitaries. It is not strange, then, that men of such parts made this town one of the pioneer manufacturing towns of the country. The demand for food could be met abundantly at their very doors. The problem presented by the demand ...
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Excerpt from The Davis and Furber Machine Company and the Men Who Made It, 1832-1908 North Andover early became noted for the patriotism, the states manship, the public spiritedness, and the enterprise of its citizens, among whom were Governor Bradstreet, Governor Phillips, and other Colonial dignitaries. It is not strange, then, that men of such parts made this town one of the pioneer manufacturing towns of the country. The demand for food could be met abundantly at their very doors. The problem presented by the demand for suitable clothing was more perplexing. The mother country for various reasons did not encourage the making of cloth on this side of the ocean. There was no money with which to buy clothing, no tools or machines for making cloth, and little or no knowledge of the art. The sturdy colonists of Andover were not long in solving this problem. Notwithstanding the opposition from across the ocean, crude spinning wheels and hand looms began to multiply in their homes. The town in 1787 made an appeal to the good sense and virtuous disposition of the female sex, to the younger as well as to the elder, that they would. By their engaging example, economy, and simplicity in dress. Giving preference to that clothing which is produced from our flocks and from our own fields, encourage home industries. From this small beginning they speedily became masters of the art of making cloth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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