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; . urer-ship of the Harmony Mills, located at Cohoes, N. Y., and managed thatmill as well as the Chicopee Manufacturing Co. He continued his professionof engineering, devoting much time to the development of electrical trans-mission of power for textile mills, and was elected, in May, 1909, a memberof the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. W^ALTER H. SUMMERSBY. Walter Henry Summersby.
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; . urer-ship of the Harmony Mills, located at Cohoes, N. Y., and managed thatmill as well as the Chicopee Manufacturing Co. He continued his professionof engineering, devoting much time to the development of electrical trans-mission of power for textile mills, and was elected, in May, 1909, a memberof the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. W^ALTER H. SUMMERSBY. Walter Henry Summersby. born in Pembroke, N. H., June 18, 1857,was the son of William and Susan (Wall) Summersby. W^illiam Sum-mersby was a civil engineer in Pembroke, and the subject of this sketchremained in his native town until he reached his majority. He attended thepublic .schools, later taking a course at the Pembroke Academy, and subse-quent to his graduation, entered the Pembroke Textile Mills, in which hehad, during vacation times, worked since his tenth year. Starting in themule room, he went through each department until he finally worked asweaver. At the age of twenty-one he left these mills to take charge of a. :L^£i:
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