. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. , and all possible carehas be^n taken for the health andsafety of the operatives. The present officers of this com-pany are: President, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Boston : treasurer, ArthurB. Silsbee, Boston ; selling agents,Lawrence & Co., Boston, New York,Philadelphia, and Chicago ; resi-dent agent, Charles H. Fish; super-intendent of cotton mills, GeorgeA. Hurd; superintendent of printworks, Howard Gray. Sawyer Woolens have beennoted for their excellence throughoutthe country for more than half
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. , and all possible carehas be^n taken for the health andsafety of the operatives. The present officers of this com-pany are: President, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Boston : treasurer, ArthurB. Silsbee, Boston ; selling agents,Lawrence & Co., Boston, New York,Philadelphia, and Chicago ; resi-dent agent, Charles H. Fish; super-intendent of cotton mills, GeorgeA. Hurd; superintendent of printworks, Howard Gray. Sawyer Woolens have beennoted for their excellence throughoutthe country for more than half a cen-tury, and, next to the Cocheco prints,have established the reputation ofDover as a manufacturing city. Theinception of the movement which de-veloped into the establishment ofthis great industry dates back to1824, when Alfred I. Sawyer camefrom IMarlborough, Mass., and es-tablished the business from w^hichthe present large concern has that time the Great Falls Manu-facturing Company owned all of thewater powers in the Bellamy Bankriver and had also secured land cov- 2l6 Wfe£!J„ Office and Mam Mill—Sawyer Woolen MiMs. ering the outlet of Chesleys pond,Barrington, upon which now standsthe reservoir dam. In 1845 bought of the Great FallsManufacturing Company all theirrights in the property, and continuedthe business without interruption un- til his death in 1S49. The businessthen passed to his brother, ZenasSawyer, i849-50; Z. and J. Saw-3-er, i85o-52 ; F. A. and J. Sawyer(Francis A. vSawyer of Boston, andJonathan Sawyer of Dover), i852-73,when Charles H. Sawyer was admit- ?Ai tj,1«
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