The Massachusetts state record and year book of general information .. . d,870 ; males do., 262, including mule tenders; yards made per week,270,000 ; cotton consumed per week, 85,000 pounds. L. Child, Agent. Massachusetts Cotton Mills, incorporated in 1839. Capital, $1,800,-000. Extent, 6 mills; spindles, 45,720 ; looms, 1,459 ; females em-ployed, 1,250 ; males do., 250 ; yards made per week, 475,000 ; cottonconsumed per week, 150,000, pounds. Joseph White, Agent. Lowell Bleachery, incorporated in 1832. Capital, $210,000. Ex-tent, bleachery and dye-works ; females employed, 20 ; males do.,200
The Massachusetts state record and year book of general information .. . d,870 ; males do., 262, including mule tenders; yards made per week,270,000 ; cotton consumed per week, 85,000 pounds. L. Child, Agent. Massachusetts Cotton Mills, incorporated in 1839. Capital, $1,800,-000. Extent, 6 mills; spindles, 45,720 ; looms, 1,459 ; females em-ployed, 1,250 ; males do., 250 ; yards made per week, 475,000 ; cottonconsumed per week, 150,000, pounds. Joseph White, Agent. Lowell Bleachery, incorporated in 1832. Capital, $210,000. Ex-tent, bleachery and dye-works ; females employed, 20 ; males do.,200. C. A. Babcock, Agent. Lowell Machine Shop, incorporated in 1845. Capital, $600,, 2 shops, smithy, and foundry; males employed, 700; 4,500tons wrought and cast iron per annum. Wm. A. Burke, Agent. Total amount of capital, $13,210,000. Total number of mills, 50 ;spindles, 319,946; looms, 9,885. Females employed, 8,260, malesdo., 3,744 ; yards made per week, 2,110,000 cotton, 20,477 woollen,12,000 carpets, 40 rugs; cotton consd,653,000 ; and wool 69,000 CITY OF ROXBURY. Officers, A. S. Dearborn, Mayor. Daniel Jackson,John L. Plummer,Richard Ward,Calvin Young, Aldermen. r George Curtis,J Theodore Dunn,I Hiram Hall,I Geo. Brown. Common A. Crafts, President. Ward 1. Reuben Winslow,Danl P. Upton,John R. Howard. Ward 2. Thacher Sweat, Uriah T. Brownell,William Seaver. Ward 3. William A. Crafts,William Gaston,Joseph Crawshaw. Ward 4. Alvah Kittredge,Joseph N. Brewer,Geo. Davenport. Ward 5. Samuel Walker, Aaron D. Williams, Jr.,Horace Williams. Ward 6. H. B. Stiles, John Richardson, Ward 7. J. Phillips George, J. C. Pratt, William D. 8. Cornelius Cowing, Aaron Cass, J. W. Wason. Joseph W. Tucker, City Clerk and Clerk of Board of Aldermen :Joshua Seaver, Clerk of Common Council; Horace Bacon, City Mes-senger ; Isaac H. Meserve, Superintendent of Almshouse ; BenjaminE. Cotting, M. D., Almshouse Physician; Isaac H. Meserve, Pound
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