History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . of his business, and he did notfail to attract notice and lucrative offers in larger manufac-tories which required him. While at Methuen he became an earnest Christian, and inhis twenty-first year united with the Baptist Church in thatplace, then under the care of Rev. C. 0. Kimball. In the year1833 he married Miss Mereie Perkins, of Jaftrey, N. H., whostill survives him after a happy union in a married life ofnearly forty years. In 1835 a more important
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . of his business, and he did notfail to attract notice and lucrative offers in larger manufac-tories which required him. While at Methuen he became an earnest Christian, and inhis twenty-first year united with the Baptist Church in thatplace, then under the care of Rev. C. 0. Kimball. In the year1833 he married Miss Mereie Perkins, of Jaftrey, N. H., whostill survives him after a happy union in a married life ofnearly forty years. In 1835 a more important and lucrativepost as overseer of the weaving in the Boott Corporation atLowell called and kept him there for five successive years. In1840 the charge both of weaving and dressing was pressedupon him from the Amoskeag corporation, at Manchester,N. H., which he accepted and most successfully held until theyear 1846. During that year, after accepting and retainingfor a time the office of superintendent of the Lowell Jtachine-Works, he resigned that post to accept the agency of theChicopee Manufacturing Company, at Chicopee Falls, in the. L ;.TCt;ic .,0.;5O3UjI1 (a. IJ-trT^C (-^ Ct^ -^^ ^-Z^C^
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