. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. r attending the public schools of Charles-town, particularly the Old Training Field School, Mr. Tufts, at theage of eighteen, entered the employ of Samuel Kidder and Com-pany, of Charlestown, as an apprentice to learn the druggist serving his three years apprenticeship with this company,his companionship and contact with active business men developedhis capable mind. In 1856, Mr. Tufts went into business for him-self in Somerville, Massachusetts. Later, he bought a store inMed
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. r attending the public schools of Charles-town, particularly the Old Training Field School, Mr. Tufts, at theage of eighteen, entered the employ of Samuel Kidder and Com-pany, of Charlestown, as an apprentice to learn the druggist serving his three years apprenticeship with this company,his companionship and contact with active business men developedhis capable mind. In 1856, Mr. Tufts went into business for him-self in Somerville, Massachusetts. Later, he bought a store inMedford, another in Boston, and afterwards purchased anotherstore in Woburn. He started the manufacturing of Soda FountainApparatus about 1866. Some years later, he added the manufac-turing of silver plated ware to this business. He conducted thismanufacturing business until his death. About 1890, the AmericanSoda Fountain Company was organized and Mr. Tufts was madePresident. In 1895 Mr. Tufts bought a tract of land covering five thousandacres, in North Carolina, and opened the winter resort, Pinehurst,. JAMES WALKER TUFTS in December of that year. In 1890, he built in Charlestownthe model tenements, known as the Bunker Hill Terraces. Heestablished the James W. Tufts Mutual Benefit Association in hisfactory in Boston, in 1891. The membership of this Societywas open to all his employees. The men were taxed one per centof their wages. Mr. Tufts subscribed an equal amount. A sickbenefit of one-half of the weekly wages for a period of thirteenweeks, and one-fourth of the weekly wages for the ensuing thirteenweeks was made. After these payments, no further benefit wasallowed until the employee had been at work for at least a death benefit of Two Hundred Dollars was also provided in caseof the death of any member of the Society. This Society is inexistence at the present time, and since the consolidation into onefactory of the employees of the James W. Tufts and the A.
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