History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . Mary E., born Feb. 11, 1840; Lydia A.,born April 25, 1842 ; and Isabella A., born Nov. 8,1844. Galen, Jr., married Henrietta Childs. Thehusband of Mary E. is Edgar H. Bowers, a manufac-turer of Needham, and the husband of Lydia A. isEmery Grover, a lawyer in active practice at theSuffolk bar. In 1839, Mr. Orr commenced the man-ufacture of blind hinges and fastenings, which hecontinued until his death, taking into partnership, in1872, his son-in-law, Edgar H. Bowers. About 1850he pur
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . Mary E., born Feb. 11, 1840; Lydia A.,born April 25, 1842 ; and Isabella A., born Nov. 8,1844. Galen, Jr., married Henrietta Childs. Thehusband of Mary E. is Edgar H. Bowers, a manufac-turer of Needham, and the husband of Lydia A. isEmery Grover, a lawyer in active practice at theSuffolk bar. In 1839, Mr. Orr commenced the man-ufacture of blind hinges and fastenings, which hecontinued until his death, taking into partnership, in1872, his son-in-law, Edgar H. Bowers. About 1850he purchased the mill privilege on Rosemary Street,in Needham, and engaged in the manufacture of cot-ton batting, which business he continued for some sixyears, when he sold the machinery to be removed fromthe mill. In 1857 he formed a copartnership withhis cousin, Thaddeus Bullen, of Haverhill, Mass., andfitted uj) the mill for the manufacture of tacks andfinishing nails ; but this business proving unrenumera-tive, at the end of a year and a half the partner-ship was dissolved and its affairs closed. In 1860 he. »^ ^I^AJIFoitchie ^a ,^. ^T^^ \
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