. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. ncorporated under the laws of Massachusetts,with the principal office at Boston and with sales office in New York. This business iscapitalized for four million nine hundred thousand dollars and the company has branchfactories at Chelsea, Massachusetts, Bayonne, New Jersey, Pawtucket, Rhode Island,Lowell, Massachusetts, Brockton, Massachusetts, and Mansfielil, Ohio, The Bridgeport fac-tory has a capacity of fifty thousand yards of elastic per week and the product is sold allover the world to jobbers and retailers. The present officers of the company are: Wi
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. ncorporated under the laws of Massachusetts,with the principal office at Boston and with sales office in New York. This business iscapitalized for four million nine hundred thousand dollars and the company has branchfactories at Chelsea, Massachusetts, Bayonne, New Jersey, Pawtucket, Rhode Island,Lowell, Massachusetts, Brockton, Massachusetts, and Mansfielil, Ohio, The Bridgeport fac-tory has a capacity of fifty thousand yards of elastic per week and the product is sold allover the world to jobbers and retailers. The present officers of the company are: WilliamBoyil Spencer, president and treasurer; Samuel Lownds, vice president and plant man-ager; John T, Cockerell, assistant secretary; and N. H, Downs, assistant plant manager,Mr. Spencer and Jlr. Lownds have been associated in their business interests for twenty-four vcars, the latter being the practical man, with Mr, Spencer as business manager, andtluir interests have been conducted most successfully, Mr. Lownds advanced the first. SAilUEL LOWNDS BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITY 26:i sev( n liiindrtcl and tiity ilollars lor Idoiiis Ijotore tlie company was incorporalid and putthe first two tlioiisand into looms, loaning a tliousand dolUirs to liis two iiartncrs andjnitting up a tliousand dollars of liis own. He aeknowUdges indebtedness to Tlionias and T. Hammond tor tlieir assistance an encouragement in the early ckiys. In 1874, in England, .Mi. Lownds was married to Miss Helen Elizabeth Kent, of Armi-tago, Staffordshire, who died .\ugust IT. ISSS. In ISDl he wedded Julia Kllen Uuckers, ofEngland, a niece of Charles (artwright of Bridgeport and a daughter of Joseph and Mar-garet Duckers of England. .Mr. Lownds possesses notable musical talent and for a long- period was solo singer at Trinity cliurch. He was married by Louis Norman Booth andthis was the first choral \ved<liiig hidd in Bridgeport. His children are: Margaret C, thewife of Chester Joslyn, of Kacine,
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