The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . loyed as agent, and foryears the business was successfully conducted, broadclothand flannel being made. It is not known how long the millcontinued in operation, but it was burned Oct. 29, 1859. Previous to the Newburyport enterprise John Manninghad in 1792 built a mill in Ipswich upon land grantedby the town, in which broadcloths, blankets, and flannelswere made, all the work of carding, spinning, and weavingbeing done by hand. The mill was a hundred and five fe
The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . loyed as agent, and foryears the business was successfully conducted, broadclothand flannel being made. It is not known how long the millcontinued in operation, but it was burned Oct. 29, 1859. Previous to the Newburyport enterprise John Manninghad in 1792 built a mill in Ipswich upon land grantedby the town, in which broadcloths, blankets, and flannelswere made, all the work of carding, spinning, and weavingbeing done by hand. The mill was a hundred and five feetlong by thirty-two feet wide, two stories high, and built ofwood. As it was not successful, cotton took the place ofwool, but this, too, failed to pay, and finally in 1800 workstopped. After being with the Newburyport Woolen Mill for aboutfive years, John Scholfield in 1789 hired for fourteen yearswater power on the Oxoboro River in Montville, Conn.,moved there, and built the first woolen mill in Connecticut,which he operated with his brother Arthur until 1806, whenhe sold out to John and Nathan Comstock. In this same <^ z. THE STORY OP TEXTILES 167 year he fitted up a factory he had bought at Stonington,Conn., and operated it. In the mean time Arthur Scholfield, who had gone toPittsfield in 1800, built a woolen mill there, and startedoperations in November, 1801; and on Nov. 2, 1801, hisfirst advertisement appeared in the Pittsfield Sun, advisingthe people of Pittsfield that he would card their wool andsell them woolens. In 1804 John Bissell, a leading mer-chant of Pittsfield, who had gone to New York to buy goods,brought home two pieces of Scholfields cloths, gray mixedbroadcloth, which he had bought for imported Madison in 1808 was inaugurated President in asuit made from thirteen yards of black broadcloth made byJohn Scholfield. In 1809 Daniel Day built a mill at Ux-bridge, Mass., twenty by forty feet, two stories, and putin a carding machine and picker,
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