. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . a newsteam chimney have been added. In addition to what hasbeen done on Circle street the company have bought theFitchburg woolen mill property and have converted it into acotton mill, thus restoring to the first mill built in Fitchburgits original industry. These improvements and additionsshow the continuous growth and enterprise of this November 1 the company will have grown from its small MANUFACTURING. 195 beginning to have about one thousand looms, will employabout four hundred and fifty hands, and annually payits employes about $2
. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . a newsteam chimney have been added. In addition to what hasbeen done on Circle street the company have bought theFitchburg woolen mill property and have converted it into acotton mill, thus restoring to the first mill built in Fitchburgits original industry. These improvements and additionsshow the continuous growth and enterprise of this November 1 the company will have grown from its small MANUFACTURING. 195 beginning to have about one thousand looms, will employabout four hundred and fifty hands, and annually payits employes about $250,000, with a production of about9,000,000 yards of cloth. They make the justly celebratedToile tin Nord goods, and their success attests the care, per-severance and enterprise of its management. A sketch ofJohn Parkhill, president, will be found in the city governmentchapter. Arthur H. Lowe, treasurer and general manager, is ason of John Lowe, and was born in Rindge, N. H., in the acre of about two vears he came to Fitchburg, where. PARKHILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY S MILLS, FACTORY SQUARE. he has since made his home ; was educated in our publicschools, leaving the high school before graduating to assisthis father. At majority he became partner, with his brothers,in the firm of I. A. Lowe & Co., and continued with themtill he became connected with the mill business. He wasforemost in starting the Cleghorn mills, and at its organiza-tion, he was made treasurer and general manager. In 1S86he became a partner of Lowe Bros., and is also a director ofthe Fitchburg National Bank and a trustee of the FitchburgSavings Bank. 196 FITCHPURG, PAST AND PRESENT. CLEGHORN MILLS is an incorporated company having a capital stock of$100,000. Its officers are Andrew Cleghorn, president andsuperintendent; Arthur H. Lowe, treasurer. The directoryconsists of Andrew Cleghorn, Arthur H. Lowe, George , John H. Daniels, D. M. Dillon, George Crocker andGeorge R. Wallace. The mills are located
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