History of Milford, Massachusetts, part 2 . dustry, ingenuity, and frugality carried them through. has the honor of being the first in this country, perhaps in the world,to use wooden pegs, instead of waxed thread, in the manufacture of boots andshoes. It was his own invention; and he made the pegs by hand, till a machinewas invented to turn them out by the thousand. He d. Jan. 9, 1852. had preceded him, having d. Sept. 26, , Dexter8 (Joseph,7 Solomon,6 Henry,5 Henry,4 Israel,3 Samuel,2 Capt. Richard1), b. in Hop., Feb. 6, 1798; m. Ruby Chapin, dr. of Major L
History of Milford, Massachusetts, part 2 . dustry, ingenuity, and frugality carried them through. has the honor of being the first in this country, perhaps in the world,to use wooden pegs, instead of waxed thread, in the manufacture of boots andshoes. It was his own invention; and he made the pegs by hand, till a machinewas invented to turn them out by the thousand. He d. Jan. 9, 1852. had preceded him, having d. Sept. 26, , Dexter8 (Joseph,7 Solomon,6 Henry,5 Henry,4 Israel,3 Samuel,2 Capt. Richard1), b. in Hop., Feb. 6, 1798; m. Ruby Chapin, dr. of Major Levi and Olive (Thayer) Chapin, b. July 29, 1798; cer. Dec. 23, 1821, by Rev. D. Long. No chn. A worthy and highly respectable pair. He was trained to the shoe and bootmaking business, and was more or less engaged in that kind of manufacturethrough life. They res. for several yrs. on Main St., corner of Prospect, butlater in life on Main, opposite the Maj. Chapin place. There they both succes-sively d.: he June 3, 1870 ; she a few yrs. Boston.
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