History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . Main Office of Mills & Gibb Corporation, New York City the mercantile world. The firm are import- Francisco; abroad, in Nottingham, England; ers, manufacturers and converters, on a Plauen, Germany; Belfast, Ireland; and in large scale, handling, among other articles, Calais and Paris, France. George R. Fogarty linens, handkerchiefs, wash and white fab- is president. 271 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. JOHN A. STEVENS Mr. John A. Stevens of Lowell, Mass.,whose engraving accompanies this sketch, isengaged in the p
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . Main Office of Mills & Gibb Corporation, New York City the mercantile world. The firm are import- Francisco; abroad, in Nottingham, England; ers, manufacturers and converters, on a Plauen, Germany; Belfast, Ireland; and in large scale, handling, among other articles, Calais and Paris, France. George R. Fogarty linens, handkerchiefs, wash and white fab- is president. 271 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. JOHN A. STEVENS Mr. John A. Stevens of Lowell, Mass.,whose engraving accompanies this sketch, isengaged in the profession which will be ofinterest to the milling men in the textile in-dustry who are striving after the best resultsin the construction and maintenance of theplants which are placing our textile manufac-turing in the forefront in the strife for theworlds JOHN A. STEVENS Mr. Stevens is an engineer whose specialtyis power plants, be they steam, electric, orhydro-electric. He is in no sense a contrac-tor, but a consulting engineer v^^hose knowl-edge and analysis on design, constructionand management has been obtained in thatmost practical of colleges—experience. Hehas never had to unlearn the technical teach-ings of impractical courses w^hich often ob-struct the early progress of the professionalengineer. The National Association of Cotton Manu-facturers thought so w^ell of Mr. Stevensservices rendered to that industry during the year 1917 that it presented to him the Asso-ciation Medal of 1918 for having contributedmost for the advancement of the cotton in-dustry through his paper Evolution of theSteam Turbine in the Textile Industry. Mr. Stevens was born in Galva, 111., 1868, and his schooling was obtainedso far as books are concerned in the graduated from the High School at Sag-inaw, Mich., and then entered the Univ
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