Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . years before he couldfind a firm to take the wire screw in sufficientquantities to make its manufacture a suc-cess, and during this time he travelled over alarge territory endeavoring to interest variousfirms in his plan. At last Perry Davis & Sonwere favorably impressed, and agreed to a con-tract, whereby they were to be supplied withwire screws for all the bottles in which theirPain Killer and other medicines were only fear was that the screws cotild notbe manufac
Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . years before he couldfind a firm to take the wire screw in sufficientquantities to make its manufacture a suc-cess, and during this time he travelled over alarge territory endeavoring to interest variousfirms in his plan. At last Perry Davis & Sonwere favorably impressed, and agreed to a con-tract, whereby they were to be supplied withwire screws for all the bottles in which theirPain Killer and other medicines were only fear was that the screws cotild notbe manufactured in sufficient numbers to keepthem supplied. The machinery has been constantly im-proved, and automatic machines are now usedby which one operator can do as much work ascould be accomplished by twenty men workingby hand. These machines have been intro-duced in both France and England, and has made several trips abroad in theinterest of his patent. At the Centennial Ex-position in Philadelphia in 1876, when the oldmachines were in use, he secured two pre-miums. In 187S, at Paris, he received an-. HIRAM F. SNOW. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 22g other reward, and at the Columbian Exposi-tion, Chicago, in 1S93, he took the highestmedal, the machines being one of the mostinteresting features of Machinery Hall, andthe place they occii|)ied always one of thecrowded sections. Mr. Clongh and two as-sistants were constantly at work makingscrews, which were sold at five cents a ])ieceas fast as they could be turned out. At theCotton States Exposition at Atlanta, in 1895,the exhibit of the Rockwell Clongh Companyattracted great attention, and Mr. Clough washonored by being chosen president of an asso-ciation composed of all the leading exhibitors,some fifteen hundred in number; in this posi-tion he entertained foreign and State clubs,and came in contact with many interesting andwidely-known people. He met many Southernsoldiers amid fraternal and pleasant associa-tions, and retains th
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