Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . building, the second storyof which is furnished for the use of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knightsof Pythias, Red Men Juniors and other fraternal organizations. erected at Alabama City, in memory of his son, Howard Gardner,who had charge of the erection of the mills in Alabama, a public librarybuilding, the first in the State of Alabama, also a fine church and school-house for the
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . building, the second storyof which is furnished for the use of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knightsof Pythias, Red Men Juniors and other fraternal organizations. erected at Alabama City, in memory of his son, Howard Gardner,who had charge of the erection of the mills in Alabama, a public librarybuilding, the first in the State of Alabama, also a fine church and school-house for the use of the inhabitants of the village. The equipment of the mills at Chicopee in 1910 included 165,000spindles and 4,000 looms, engaged in the manufacture of sheetings, shirt-ings and dress goods. The number of spindles operated by the corpora-tion in 1910 totaled 227,000, and looms 60,000. To operate this machineryrequires steam engines and turbines and water wheels aggregating 10,000horse-power. In 1910 the officers of the company were as follows: Theophilus Par-sons, president; Ernest Lovering, treasurer; George H. Nutting, clerk ofthe corporation; Louis A. Aumann, agent at Chicopee, Mass.; M. ARI^IiVGTON MILLS. Lawrence. Mass. OF THE UNITED STATES 445 Dean, superintendent at Chicopee, Mass.; C. H. Moody, agent at AlabamaCity, Ala.; Irving Southwortli, superintendent at Alabama City, Ala., andMessrs. Minot, Hooper & Co., of New York City, were selling agents forthe entire plant. ARLINGTON MILLS. The Arlington Mills are located on the Spicket River, in Lawrenceand Methuen, Essex County, Mass., on the Boston and Alaine factory for the manufacture of woolens was built in 1865 by RobertM. Bailey and Joseph Nickerson, who, together with Chas. A. Lombardand George C. Bosson, were the original proprietors. Within a very shorttime the owners purchased the piano-case factory of Abiel Stevens onthe Spicket River, and in 1865 a corporation was formed under the styleof
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