Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . ) Taft, and a descendant ofRobert Taft, who was born in 1640, probably in Scotland; came fromEngland to Massachusetts Bay Colony with his wife, Sarah, and settled inBraintree in 1675; removed to Mendon in 1680 and died in 1725. CyrusTaft removed with his family to Northbridge, Mass., in 1839, and hisson attended the public schools of the town and the academy at 1846, at the age
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . ) Taft, and a descendant ofRobert Taft, who was born in 1640, probably in Scotland; came fromEngland to Massachusetts Bay Colony with his wife, Sarah, and settled inBraintree in 1675; removed to Mendon in 1680 and died in 1725. CyrusTaft removed with his family to Northbridge, Mass., in 1839, and hisson attended the public schools of the town and the academy at 1846, at the age of seventeen, Gustavus E. Taft entered the WhitinMachine Shop as an apprentice, and he there found full scope for thedevelopment of his mechanical genius. In i860 John C. Whitin made himsuperintendent of the Holyoke Machine Shops, and he returned to Whitins-ville in 1864 to become superintendent of the Whitin Machine Shop,organized upon the dissolution of the firm of P. Whitin & Sons, withwhich firm he had learned his trade. He was identified with the extensiveenlargement of the machine works, and was largely responsible for thegrowth and development of the business, being an excellent organizer.
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