History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . ftnd opposed with great zeal the attemptmade by the Rev. Thomas Parker tochange the mode of church governmentfrom Congregationalism to somethinglike Presbyterianism. He was a deputyto the General Court i»43. The three great-g—Joseph, Joshua, and Nathan 1—settled in Buxton, from Newbury, about1756, from \\ horn sprang the Woodmansol York Count> Shubael, gnindfither of our subject,owned a farm on the west b mk of bAmRiver, m Hullis, in posaessit Tfoi of Edward \ II 1 1 Oct
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . ftnd opposed with great zeal the attemptmade by the Rev. Thomas Parker tochange the mode of church governmentfrom Congregationalism to somethinglike Presbyterianism. He was a deputyto the General Court i»43. The three great-g—Joseph, Joshua, and Nathan 1—settled in Buxton, from Newbury, about1756, from \\ horn sprang the Woodmansol York Count> Shubael, gnindfither of our subject,owned a farm on the west b mk of bAmRiver, m Hullis, in posaessit Tfoi of Edward \ II 1 1 Oct 2t 1^ 1 1 1 1 1 1 ^^r , >l 111 1. n liLlli 11 Horace, tli at hunie u lie «u, fuuitLUi years of age, « hen le 1 inie to Sic, and for three years«asacle k 111 a gMierv-store. He iecarae an entae in the Saco Water- Powel Macliin Shops for t« 0 J ears, and wasinLo« ell il u,s, for 3 ears, during liiH as a mjcl « IS developed, and his skill as a » oiknmi michinerj of the Walfh im Watch Ma nnf Bo^- ton Hi» le-s led him to »tnrtv m b-,U he .niented a Self. C:,/y^LO^iCJ^4^^i^^ Stripping foitoii which, fur thofollowing three years, he unsuccessfullyattempted to introduce in the mannlac-turiog establishments at LoweH; but,confident of its final success, he came toSacoinl854,wh6reheobtaiued permissionto use it, wliich proved its value, and heobtained ilM patent the same year, inAugust. For an improvement on this beobtained a patent in July, 1865, and , 1857, and the same was extended forseven yeare, July, 1870. He defended thispatent in the United States Courts, andwas successful at the end of twelve yearsby a decree of the Court in his favoragainst forty-six manufacturing corpora-tions of New England, whom he sued forinfringement upon his patent. The valueof the patent to manufacturers was great;and during the life of the patent they hadrealized a profit of many million dollars. In 1858 he invented the WoodmanPower and
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