Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . ter, Massachusetts. Careful applicationsoon made him expert and enabled him to establishhimself as a merchant tailor of taste and skill i/iSterling, Leominster, and finally in Fitchburg, Massa-chusetts. In 1850 he married Ellen Augusta Pollard,of his native town, who died in 1879. leaving adaughter, Mary Ellen Butterick, a son having diedin infancy. In the conduct of his business, Mr. Butterickwas much annoyed by the waste of time in cutt
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . ter, Massachusetts. Careful applicationsoon made him expert and enabled him to establishhimself as a merchant tailor of taste and skill i/iSterling, Leominster, and finally in Fitchburg, Massa-chusetts. In 1850 he married Ellen Augusta Pollard,of his native town, who died in 1879. leaving adaughter, Mary Ellen Butterick, a son having diedin infancy. In the conduct of his business, Mr. Butterickwas much annoyed by the waste of time in cuttingchildrens garments, and conceived the idea that aset of graded patterns would be a great advantageto him and to other tailors, and especially to mothersmaking clothes for their own children. It was dur-ing a period of recuperation from disabling sick-ness and anxiety that his meditative mind con-ceived this idea. It was highly characteristic that abenevolent impulse and an interest in little childrenwere fundamental to the invention which is now sointimately and honorably associated with his June, 1863, he astonished his wife by telling her.
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