Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . essity and delicacy was laid, andit is often with a feeling expressive of regretthat he speaks of what a great loss to Ameri-can industrial life has been the neglect anddiscontinuance of the apprenticeship systemof producing master workmen as it is prac-ticed in the old world. His father, Robert H. Danskin, now de-ceased, was a successful merchant for manyyears in the native town, and only left thehome-land under the stress of the villages de-clining industries. Other
Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . essity and delicacy was laid, andit is often with a feeling expressive of regretthat he speaks of what a great loss to Ameri-can industrial life has been the neglect anddiscontinuance of the apprenticeship systemof producing master workmen as it is prac-ticed in the old world. His father, Robert H. Danskin, now de-ceased, was a successful merchant for manyyears in the native town, and only left thehome-land under the stress of the villages de-clining industries. Other branches of the fam-ily of both mothers and fathers relationshiphad come tO America and become successfulin their chosen fields. Especially was this trueof an uncle of Mother Danskins, named JohnAitken, who, after managing an important de-partment in the firm of Andrew Mitchell &Company, of Canal street, New York City,started in business for himself and built up oneof the largest silk and tapestry importationhouses in that city. The concern is still con-ducted under the founders name, on lowerBroadway, New York
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