History of Lowell and its people . s, had a salary varying from $625 to $1, office was at first on Central street and later in the city govern-ment building at Merrimack and John streets. In 1833 President Jack- THE FACTORY SYSTEM 187 son appointed to the postmastership, the Rev. Eliphalet Case, a staunchDemocrat, who later removed to Ohio. With A. C. Bagley, also aLowell man, he settled in Cincinnati, where he engaged in the pub-lishing business. He was for s-ome years editor and part owner ofthe Enquirer. About the beginning of the Civil War he removedto Portland, Maine, and bought th
History of Lowell and its people . s, had a salary varying from $625 to $1, office was at first on Central street and later in the city govern-ment building at Merrimack and John streets. In 1833 President Jack- THE FACTORY SYSTEM 187 son appointed to the postmastership, the Rev. Eliphalet Case, a staunchDemocrat, who later removed to Ohio. With A. C. Bagley, also aLowell man, he settled in Cincinnati, where he engaged in the pub-lishing business. He was for s-ome years editor and part owner ofthe Enquirer. About the beginning of the Civil War he removedto Portland, Maine, and bought the Advertiser. He died December15, 1862, aged sixty-six years. In some reminiscences contributed byHon. J. G. Peabody to the Courier Citizen history of 1897, it is statedthat he finally went to Indiana, engaged in farming and died statement of Mr. Peabodys, evidently made from memory, musthave been erroneous, as the Lowell Citizen published an obituary,rather lengthv and circumstantial for the time, on December 18, CHAPTER Era of Improvement. Commencement of the Lowell School System—It was characteris-tic (jf the temper of the cdmntunity that the institutions of public edu-cation were exceptionally well started in the first decade of municipalexistence. Provisions for schooling had not figured so very heavilyin the budgets of the towns out of which the territory of Lowell wastaken. One of the first schoolmasters, a worthy predecessor of many whohave served the community in this essential capacity, was Joel Lewis,born at Canton in 1800. When the Merrimack company in 1824 openedits school on the site of the Green school, this yoimg man was em-ployed as teacher. He had had experience already, having begun toteach at Braintree as a boy of eighteen. In 1822 he became an assist-ant in Warren Colburns Boston school and thus presumably cameimder consideration for the position at East Chelmsford. Besidesbeing an excellent pedagogue Mr. Lewis was, like his frie
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