. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ncreaseBlake, grandfather ofGeorge F., was liv-ing in Boston, wherehe was engaged inthe manufacture oftin-plate goods. Herefused to supply theBritish troo]>s withcanteens, and inretaliation they de-stroyed his shop andother Dawes Blakewas born in Boston,studied medicine,and after a time set-tled in Farmington,Me. George F., atthe age of fourteen,was apprenticed tothe trade of house-build i n g , and in1839 left Farm-ington and went toPeab
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ncreaseBlake, grandfather ofGeorge F., was liv-ing in Boston, wherehe was engaged inthe manufacture oftin-plate goods. Herefused to supply theBritish troo]>s withcanteens, and inretaliation they de-stroyed his shop andother Dawes Blakewas born in Boston,studied medicine,and after a time set-tled in Farmington,Me. George F., atthe age of fourteen,was apprenticed tothe trade of house-build i n g , and in1839 left Farm-ington and went toPeabody, Mass.,where he worked athis trade seven he entered the employ of Peter Hubbell, at Cambridge, Mass., as mechan-ical engineer at Mr. Hubbells brick-yards, where he hadgeneral charge of the works. In 1862 he was granteda patent for a water meter. In time, the brick-yardshaving been removed to Medford, it was found thatthe clay there could not be worked with the ordinarymachinery. Mr. Blake, therefore, planned and con-structed a new machine for pulverizing the clay, andpatented this invention in 1861. The clay pits con-. GEORGE F. BLAKE stantly filled with water, and Mr. Blake set to work toovercome this difficulty. The result was the Blakesteam pump, which is perhaps his greatest mechanicaltriumph. The pump was put to severe tests in the claypits to keep them free of water, and the new inventionwas found to be a nearly perfect thing. In 1864 , in association with Job A. Turner and PeterHubbell, began the manufacture and sale of these pumpsand water meters in a little shop on Province Street, Boston. Growingbusiness caused sev-eral successiveremovals, until, i n1873, the firm occu-pied a large build-ing at the corner ofCauseway andFriend streets. Thefoundry for largecastings was at EastCambridge. In 1874a joint stock com-pany was formed,tinder the title ofThe George Manufactur-ing Company, withGeorge F. Blake asits president. In1879 ^he plant ofthe
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