. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . xisted very strong ties, owing to the fact thatmany of the settlers in our Andover during the nineteenth century came directfrom Brechin. From there came the original John Smith in 1816, and, after someother ventures, started in 1836, with hisbrother Peter and John Dove, a flax mill inour Andover. All three of these men werenatives of Brechin, and they induced manyother people of that town to come toAndover, Massachusetts, as operatives intheir mill. The business is now conductedvmder the name of the Smith and DoveCompany, carried
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . xisted very strong ties, owing to the fact thatmany of the settlers in our Andover during the nineteenth century came directfrom Brechin. From there came the original John Smith in 1816, and, after someother ventures, started in 1836, with hisbrother Peter and John Dove, a flax mill inour Andover. All three of these men werenatives of Brechin, and they induced manyother people of that town to come toAndover, Massachusetts, as operatives intheir mill. The business is now conductedvmder the name of the Smith and DoveCompany, carried on principally by F. Smith, grandson of the pioneer,John Smith. They also gave to AndoverTheological Seminary in 1865, a hbrary,which was named Brechin Hall, after theirbirthplace. This building is now the ad-ministration center of Phillips Academy andis probably the most conspicuous structureon Andover Hill. Brechin Terrace, a shortstreet in another section of the town, is acenter for Scotch mill operatives, and is alsonamed after the Scotch From a photograph of pkture in An Old N, E. School,by Claude M. Fuess, Esq, Kindness Claude M. Fuess, Esq, BRECHIN H.\LL, Andover , Seminary,.Andover. Massachusetts, presented in 1S65 by residents of Andover,Massachusetts, whose ancestors had come tothis town from Brechin, Scotland.
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