. History of Worcester and its people . for his employer. At the same time he made friends throughout New Yorkand New England in the course of his trips and thoroughlv mastered the details ofthe glove business. He started in business on his own account, April i, 1845. a.! amanufacturer of buckskin gloves at Gloversville. Subsequently he engaged in themanufacture of mens clothing, and in a few years had the largest business in thisline in that section of the country. During the early years of the Civil War hetook government contracts for army gloves. _ In the meantime his elder brother, Lucius
. History of Worcester and its people . for his employer. At the same time he made friends throughout New Yorkand New England in the course of his trips and thoroughlv mastered the details ofthe glove business. He started in business on his own account, April i, 1845. a.! amanufacturer of buckskin gloves at Gloversville. Subsequently he engaged in themanufacture of mens clothing, and in a few years had the largest business in thisline in that section of the country. During the early years of the Civil War hetook government contracts for army gloves. _ In the meantime his elder brother, Lucius J. Knowles, who had been manufac-turmg steam pumps at Warren, added to his business the manufacture of looms im-proved by his patents for the making of narrow fabrics, and he juirsuaded Francisto join him. in March. 1862. The following vear, 1863, marked an era in the business,following another patent of Lucius J. Knowles for harness and box motions onfancy looms, the outgrowth of which is the present superior tvpe known as the Knowles. (fy^yfl^rU^^^^H^
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