Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 3

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732

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(III) Joseph Taylor, son of Jacob Taylor (2), was born in Concord. Massachusetts. August 10, 1699. lle married Elizabeth and their chil- dren were: Joseph, born March 26, 1734: William, September 30. 1736; Elizabeth, May II, 1730: Han- nah. May 15. 1742: Timothy, April 15. 1745 ; Stephen, December 31, 1748.

(IV) Joseph Taylor, son of Joseph Taylor (3), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, March 26. 1734. died July 12, 1810. He married at Concord. Massa- chusetts, Hannah Wheat. She was born July, 1740, died April. 1813. They lived in Concord many years, but finally removed to Hartford, Washington county. New York, where they were among the earliest settlers. He was a sea captain in early life. His three daughters married and their names were: Jillson. Meriwether and Comstock. All their chil- dren were born and recorded at Coneord, Massa- chusetts, viz. : Anne, born October 14. 1759; Nathan February IT, 1761, enlisted in the revolutionary army at the age of fifteen ; Samuel, January 7, 1763, was a soldier in the revolution at the age of seventeen ; Hannah. December 31, 1764; Joseph, April 5. 1767; Sarah. September 10, 1769.

(\') Joseph Taylor, son of Joseph Taylor (4), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, April 5. 1767, died January 16, 1836. He married. September 9. 1792, Lydia Adams, daughter of Levi and Margaret ( Perkins) Adams. She was horn in Canterbury, Connecticut. May 14, 1771, died in Hartford, New York. January 27, 1838 (or January 25. 1839, private record ).

Joseph, and his brothers. Samuel and Nathan Taylor, went to Hartford when it was a wilderness, secured a patent and sold the land to others, each reserving a large farm. Joseph Taylor was a major in the war of 1812. Ile had nine children, two of whom died young. Children of Major Joseph and Lydia (Adams) Taylor were: John Adams, born April 25, 1794, lieutenant in war of 1812; Hannah. August 13. 1796, married David H. Lytle; Daniel (twin), May 25. 1708, lived to be over eighty-seven years, died at Plainfield. Illinois: David (twin). May 25, 1798, living in 1886 at Port Byron, New York; Nancy, June 13. 1803: Asenath, February

21. 1805: Lucy, November 18, 1808, married Olmstead.

(VI) Hannah Taylor, daughter of Major Joseph Taylor (5). married David H. Lytle, as stated above.

ADAMS FAMILY. Henry Adams (1), of Braintree, was the emigrant ancestor of Lydia Adams, ancestor of William A. Lytle, of Worcester. She married his grandfather as stated above. David H. Lytle. (See elsewhere in this work details of Henry Adams, the emigrant). Children of Henry Adams were: Lieutenant Henry, Lieutenant Thomas, Captain Samuel, Deacon Jonathan, Peter, John, of Cambridge; Joseph, Ensign Edward.

(II) Lieutenant Jonathan Adams, son of Henry Adams (I), was born in England, 1612. He married at Braintree, 1642, Mary Blackmore. He removed with his brothers Samuel and John from Braintree to Coneord in 1646, John going later to West Cam- bridge, now Arlington, Massachusetts, while Thomas and Samuel Adams went to the western part of Chelmsford, remaining from 1650 to 1654. Thomas Adams became chief sergeant of the military com- pany in 1659, but at first the county court refused to confirm him because of his religious views. Upon his agreeing to a compromise he was confirmed April. 1660, inade ensign 1678, lieutenant 1682 in his brother Samuel's company. He was town clerk, selectman, commissioner to try small causes, deputy to the general court. He died at Chelmsford, July 26. 1688. Children of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary Adams were: Mary, born in Braintree, July 24, 1643: Jonathan, born in Concord; Pelatiah, twin of Jonathan, born January 6. 1646; Timothy, born February 15. 1648: George, born March 29. 1650, died young; Samuel, born at Chelmsford (and also the following ) 1652-53: Edith, born February 21, 1665, died young; Rebecca. born September 18, 1657, died young: Elizabeth, born October 21, 1658- 59. died young : Thomas, born July 22, 1660, died young ; Mary, born October 29. 1664.

(III) Jonathan Adams, son of Lieutenant Thomas Adams (2). was born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, January 6, 1646. He married, August 29, 1681, Leah Gould, twin daughter of Francis and Rose Gould, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. She died in 1718. His farm was in or near Littleton. He died at Chelms- ford. November 25. 1712. Children of Jonathan and Leah Adams were: Edith, born December 1, 1683; Mary, May 13. 1687 : Margaret. June 24. 1688; Lydia, April 2. 1691 : Abigail. November 9, 1693; Jonathan, March 21, 1695-96: David. March 29, 1699; Eliza- beth, Edward, Rachel.

(IV) David Adams, son of Jonathan Adams (3), was born in Chelmsford. Massachusetts, March 29. 1690. He married Dorcas Paine, August 27. 1723. in Canterbury, Connecticut, whither he went to locate. She was the daughter of Elisha and Rebecca (Doane) Paine. She was born in Eastham, Massachusetts. February 20, 1699. David died at Canterbury. May 21, 1759. Children of David and Dorcas (Paine) Adams were: Jonathan, born May 25, 1724; Levi. November 18. 1728; Dr. Abel, Jan- uary 5. 1730, a Quaker: Elisha. July 5, 1733; Dor- cas, June 5. 1735: Leah, August 18. 1738; Rebecca, August 6. 1742.

(V) Levi Adams, son of David Adams (4), was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, November 18, 1728, baptized in the Newent Society at Lisbon. He mar- ried Margaret Perkins. She was born July, 1729, died June 23, 1829, lacking but a month of living a hundred years, and her death was hastened by an accident. She died in Hartford, New York. He lived at Canterbury. Connecticut, and at Milford, Otsego county, New York. He and his four sons

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were carpenters by trade. Ile and three sons, Levi, David and John, were soldiers in the revolution. He was in the service at New London at the cap- ture of Fort Griswold, September 7, 1781. He re- moved to Pawlet, Vermont, in 1782, when several families went there and he settled in the vicinity.

Ile died at Hardwick, Otsego county, 1816, aged eighty-eight years. Children of Levi and Margaret ( Perkins ) Adams were : Lucy, born March 23, 1752; Sergeant Levi, February 14, 1754; Captain David, March 2, 1756; Margaret, December 20, 1758; Margaret, January 17, 1700, died young ; John, December 16, 1762, said to have been a guard of Major Andre after his capture; Joanna, August 4, 1764: Asahel, August 4, 1764; Asenath, March 11, 1767: Lydia; William, February 8, 1774.

(VI) Lydia Adams, daughter of Levi Adams (5). married, September 9, 1792, Major Joseph Taylor, as stated above. She was the great-grand- mother of William A. Lytle.

DAVID HALE FANNING. Edmund Fanning (I), presumably the son of Francis Fanning, of Limerick, Ireland, settled in New London, Connecti- cut, in 1653. He appears also to have resided on Fisher's Island, then owned by John Winthrop, the younger, afterwards governor of the Connecticut colony, where we find record of him in 1055 and 1657. Before 1662, however, he returned to New London and settled in that part of the town which was in 1705 set off to form the new town of Groton, where he had a grant of fifty acres of land in 1664. This grant was on the west bank of the Mystic river, two miles above the present village of Old or L'pper Mystic, in what is now the town of Led- yard, and formed the nucleus of a large farm called his Groton farm, which remained in the possession of his descendants nearly one hundred and fifty years.

Edmund Fanning then became one of the original proprietors of Stonington, Connecticut, receiving various grants of land in 1665, 1667 and succeeding years. His homestead in Stonington was southeast of his New London grant and was separated from it by the Mystic river, the dividing line between the towns of Groton and Stonington. He resided on this farm when he died in 1683. His Stonington grants embraced an area of about five hundred and forty- two acres in addition to his New London, Groton and Voluntown grants. The site of Edmund Fan- ning's house is now marked only by a cellar hole. He was prominent in organizing the church, June 3, 1674. The building was erected by subscriptions of timber, shingles, nails and labor. It stood . until another church was built in 1729. Mr. Fanning was admitted a freeman of Stonington by the general court at Ilartford, May 17, 1673. He served in King Philip's war, as did also his sons Edmund, Thomas and John, and received a grant of land as compensation for his services in that war. The lots were laid out in Voluntown, Connecticut, which be- came known as the Volunteer Country. Edmund Fanning died intestate at Stonington in December, 1683, leaving five sons and one daughter.

He married Ellen in Ireland, and his eldest son Edmund was born there. After Edmund Fanning's death his widow joined the First Con- gregational Church at Stonington, October 2, 1684. Although it would naturally be inferred that Ed- mund Fanning was originally a Roman Catholic in Ireland, there is no proof of it. He was a mem- ber of the Congregational church in Connecticut and active in its support. The children of Edmund and Ellen Fanning were: 1. Edmund, born in Ire- land, about 1651. 2. Margaret, born at Pequot,

now New London, Connecticut, about 1653, drowned April 29, 1604. 3. Thomas, born on Fisher's Island, New York, about 1655. 4. John, born on Fisher's Island, New York, about 1057. 5. William, born on Fisher's Island, about 1659, killed it is said early in life by Indians. 6. James, born at New London, Connecticut, about 1663, no record of him after 1693. 7. Mary, born at New London, April 28, 1665, married, at Stonington, September 24, 1683, Lieu- tenant Benjamin Hewitt, son of Thomas and Han- nah ( Palmer) Hewitt, who were married April 26, 1659. (Thomas Hewitt, the progenitor of the family, settled in Stonington as early as 1656).

(Il) John Fanning, son of Edmund Fanning (I), was born about 1657 on Fishers Island, New York. He married, in New London, Connecticut, 1683 or 1684, Margaret Culver, presumably a daugh- ter of Edward and Ann Culver. He settled on Fort Hill in Groton, Connecticut. He served in King Philip's war and received a grant of land for his services. He died at Groton between the first and thirteenth of February, 1738-39. His widow died at Groton just previous to June 16, 1740. His will was dated February 1, 1738-39, and probated Feb- ruary 13, 1738-39. The children of Lieutenant John and Margaret (Culver) Fanning were: I. Mary, born in what is now Groton, Connecticut, baptized in Stonington, August 26, 1686, married Samuel Fox; he resided in Preston, but removed to Groton, in 1741, where he purchased a farm; died 1752. 2. John, born in the town of New London, about 1688. 3. Margaret, born in the town of New London, about 1692; married (first), at Groton, Connecticut, after 1720, a Mr. Avery and had a son Daniel, who was killed by Indians. She married (second) Jede- dialı Ashcraft; she died 1773-4. 4. Prudence, born in the town of New London about 1694, married, at Groton, Connecticut, Jacob Parke. 5. Thankful, born in the town of New London about 1696, mar- ried ( first), at Groton, in 1733, John Martyn, of Groton. She married (second), in 1745,

Talley, of Stonington. She married (third) Captain James Packer, of Groton; she died 1780. 6. Will- jam, born in the town of New London about 1700.

( 11}) John Fanning, son of Lieutenant John Fanning (2), was born at Groton, Connecticut, about 1688. He married, at Groton, about 1716, Deborah Parke, daughter of William and Hannah (Frink) Parke. She was born at Preston, Con- necticut, August 5, 1696, a descendant of Robert Parke, who married in Edmondsbury, England, Mar- tha Chaplin, and came to America in 1630 in the ship "Arbella." John Fanning settled in that part of New London in which he was born, later set off as Groton. He died intestate at Groton in Decem- ber, 1718. The widow Deborah married (second), May 14, 1722, Benajah Williams, son of Captain John and Martha ( Wheeler) Williams; they re- moved from Groton and were living in Crum El- bow, Dutchess county, New York. in 1751. John Fanning was admitted an inhabitant of Groton, May 22, 1712. His death was caused by accidentally cutting an artery in his leg. The children of John and Deborah ( Parke) Fanning were: 1. John, born in Groton, 1717-18. 2. Thomas, born in Groton, 1719.

(IV) Thomas Fanning, son of John Fanning (3), was born at Groton, Connecticut, 1719. Ile married, at Groton, July 26, 1744, Elizabeth Capron, daughter of Walter and Hope ( Whipple) Capron, the former named a son of Banfield Capron, of Bar- rington and Attleborough, Massachusetts, was a forgeman and settled in Groton, where he died at the age of eighty-four years. Elizabeth Capron was born in Norwich, Connecticut, April 7, 1725.

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After the death of his father Thomas Fanning was brought up by his grandfather. William Parke, of Preston, who was appointed his guardian, July 25. 1722. Ile learned the trade of carpenter, and settled at what is now Shewville and there bought a farm and built a saw mill. He held many town offices and was prominent in local affairs. He was appointed lieutenant of the Fifth Company of Militia at Groton, Connecticut, by the general as- sembly. October 10, 1705. and captain in October. 1771. lle opened the first recruiting office in Con- necticut after the revolutionary war broke out, and was afterward commissioned by the government to recruit soldiers. He sent five of his six sous into the service; he was too old to go himself. He died intestate at Groton, December 15, 1787, aged sixty- eight years. Ilis widow died at Groton, April 27, 1810, in her eighty-sixth year. Both are buried at Preston Plain cemetery, where their headstones may still be seen. They had issue, nine children, all born in Groton. They were: 1. Katherine, born June 9. 1745. died March 9. 1755. 2. Walter, born May 20. 1747. 3. Charles, born December 16, 1749. 4. Prudence, born April 28, 1752, married, at Groton, April 25, 1770. Jabez Tracy, son of Nathaniel Tracy, a school teacher. 5. Thomas, born May 22. 1755. 6. Hope, born August 14. 1757, married. June 27. 1782. Elisha Ayer, son of Deacon Joseph and Thankful ( Deake) Ayer, born August 16, 1757; he was a wealthy farmer and resided in Groton.

(V) Thomas Fanning, son of Thomas Fanning (4), was born at Groton, Connecticut, May 22, 1755. He learned the trade of ship carpenter and followed it at New London, Mystic, Stonington and New York city. He lived in Groton many years, most of the time at the Fanning homestead, probably at what is now Shewville. Previous to 1800 he removed to New York city, but returned soon to Groton. In 1815 he bought a farm at Norwich, where lie re- sided until his death. He served in the revolution- ary war and was wounded in the service. He en- listed March 18. 1777, as a private and was appointed corporal the same day in Captain Amos Stanton's company of Colonel Henry Sherburne's regiment. He served also in Captain William Clift's company. Colonel John Durkee's regiment, and in Colonel Ebenezer Huntington's regiment. He served until the close of the war, June, 1783. He was wounded in the head, a bullet plowing its way along the scalp and leaving a deep scar, which in after years he was wont to show to his grandsons, saying: "Boys. put your finger in that furrow-that was made by a damned Redcoat's bullet." He drew a pension after March 6, 1810. for having served six years in the revolution. He died at Norwich, April 15. 1828.

lle married. at Groton, March 3. 1785. Susannah Faulkner, born in Groton, 1758-59. died at Norwich. Connecticut, March 4. 1841, aged eighty-two years, daughter of John and Susannah ( Willson) Faulk- ner. Both she and her husband were buried in the old Norwich city cemetery. Susannah Willson was the daughter of John and Mary ( Cunningham ) Willson, who were married at Groton, September 3, 1730. The children of Thomas and Susannah ( Faulkner ) Fanning were: I. Henry Willson, born at Groton, February 8, 1786. 2. John Faulkner. born June 25. 1788. 3. Fanny Maria, born April 12, 1790. marred, at Norwich, Sidney Gardner, a farmer of Montville, Connecticut, a son of Lemuel Gardner: Sidney died at Norwich. September 14. 1840: she died April 9. 1876. 4. Polinda or Mary. born at Groton, Countcticut, February 25. 1793, mar- ried. at Norwich, October 18, 1820. Henry Ed- wards, a farmer of Norwich Town: he died at New Haven, Connecticut, about 1850; she died at Nor-

wich, October 22. 1859. aged sixty-six years. 5. Thomas, born at Groton, January 24. 1790, died at New York city. September 22, 1800, of yellow fever. 6. Alfred, born at New York city. July 27, 1800, was a blacksmith, lived with parents at Norwich ; died unmarried about 1840.

(VI) Henry Willson Fanning, son of Thomas Fanning (5), was born at Groton, Connecticut. Feb- ruary 8, 1786. He was a blacksmith by trade. He lived at Marlboro, Norwich and Jewett City, Con- necticut. He served for a time in the war of 1812 as corporal in Enos H. Buell's company of Con- necticut militia. He married, at Marlboro, Con- necticuit, October 3, ISII, Sarah Hale, born in Glas- tonbury, Connecticut, July 19, 1788, daughter of David and Ruth ( Hale) Hale, and a descendant of the well known Hale family of Glastonbury. The progenitor of the name.in that section was, it is said, Samuel Hale, Sr., who was a pioneer settler in Hartford, Wethersfield and Norwalk, Connecti- cut. Ilenry Willson Fanning died at Jewett City. Connecticut. July 3, 1836, aged fifty years. His widow died at Jewett City. June 10, 1837. aged forty-nine years, and both are buried in the family lot in Jewett City.

The children of Henry Willson and Sarah ( Hale ) Fanning were: 1. Charles Henry, born at Marlboro, Connecticut, October 2, 1812. 2. Thomas Willson, born at Marlboro, Connecticut, January 28. 1814. went to. Norwich to learn the carriage maker's trade and died there of typhus fever. August 31. 1833, aged nineteen years, unmarried. 3. Henry Williams, born at Marlboro, Connecticut, May 23, 1810. 4. Sophia Hale, born at Jewett City, February 28, 1819, resided at Jewett City, Bozrah and Daniel- sonville, Connecticut, where she died May II. 1882, unmarried. 5. Sarah Maria, born at Jewett City, January 27, 1821; married, at Killingly, Connecti- cut, January 19, 1850, George Wanton Spalding, a school teacher. born at Providence, Rhode Island, March 3. 1816. They settled in Natick, Rhode Island, where she died in October, 1865. George W. Spalding married ( second), at Natick. Decem- ber 15. 1870. Mrs. Alice King Hathaway Warner, and he died at Natick, November 18. 1874. 0. Elizabeth Capron, born at Jewett City, Connecticut, May 30, 1823. 7. George Faulkner, born at Jewett City, September 4, 1825. 8. Lucy Ann, born at Jewett City, December 28. 1827. married, at Lons- dale, Rhode Island, April 18, 1848, George B. Haw- kins, of Jewett City, son of Esek Hawkins; he was a "forty-niner" and died on the way home from California at Charleston, South Carolina, September 23. 1850: she died in Worcester, April 1, 1892. 9. David Hale, born at Jewett City, Connecticut. August 4, 1830.

(II) Elizabeth Capron Fanning, daughter of Henry Willson Fanning (6), was born at Jewett City, Connecticut, May 30, 1823. She was named for her great-grandmother. She married, at Clin- ton. Massachusetts. December 2, 1851. Charles Ed- win Brooks, of Worcester, Massachusetts, born August 15, 1824, son of Deacon Nathaniel and Mary ( Chadwick ) Brooks, of. Worcester, and eighth in descent from Captain Thomas and Grace Brooks, of Concord. Massachusetts. (See sketches of the Brooks Family and Walter F. Brooks elsewhere in this work ). She removed from Jewett City to Wor- cester in March, 1847. Charles Edwin Brook- was brought up on the farm. completed his schooling at the old Baptist Academy. Worcester, and when of age entered mercantile life. He was a member of the firm of Brooks & Stearns, grocers, for twelve years. Ile was in the service during the civil war in the commissary department at Newbern, North

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Carolina. After his return to the north he became a partner with his brother-in-law, David H. Fan- ning, in the 'Worcester Skirt Company, In 1879 he was elected treasurer and librarian of the Worces- ter County Horticultural Society, a position that he held until his death at Worcester, December 22, 1890. His life was an excellent example of faith- fulness, honesty and devotion.

The children of Charles Edwin and Elizabeth Capron (Fanning ) Brooks were: 1. Ella, born November 10, 1852, died January 10, 1857. 2, Ar- thur Anderson, born December 25, 1856, married, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, Louisa Darling Gris- wold, daughter of Hon. Whiting and Frances Lin- coln (Clark) Griswold. He was a graduate of Harvard, 1879, and of Harvard Divinity School, 1884; ordained minister of the Third Congregational ( Unitarian) Society, Greenfield, Massachusetts, Jan- uary, 1885, resigned December, 1896. He resides in Boston. They have no children. 3. Walter Fred- erick, born January 13, 1859; was associated with William H. Morse in the banking and brokerage business for eleven years; then became one of the Jessees and proprietors of the Worcester Theatre under the name of Rock & Brooks; is now ( 1906) and has been since 1896 treasurer of the Royal Wor- cester Corset Company of Worcester; is author and compiler of the "History of the Fanning Family" (1905) ; resides in Worcester ; unmarried. ( For sketch see Brooks Family).

(VII) David Hale Fanning, son of Henry Will- son Fanning (7), was born at Jewett City, Con- neetieut, August 4, 1830. He is what may be termed a self-made man. In a genealogical consideration of the Fanning family this feature of his career is worthy of mention, as it indicates the stanchness of the parent stock. When David H. was seven years of age his parents died, and he remained in the care of an older brother until he reached the age of six- teen. Meanwhile he received such education as the distriet schools of the neighborhood afforded. The exacting discipline of his brother, the narrowness of his own life, the hopelessness of any develop- ment, and the inborn craving to be somebody and to do something, made him ambitious to see the world and make his own way. This characteristic had to assert itself and has ever been a conspicuous part of his makeup. So, with his few possessions, among which was a Testament given him by his mother ( which he always faithfully kept) and a cash capital of two dollars and fifty cents, he left his native place on foot to seek his fortune. After a twenty mile walk he reached Danielsonville. Con- neeticut, at the end of his first day, there obtain- ing supper. lodging and breakfast, for which he paid sixteen cents. He then made direct for Wor- cester, at that time a town of some ten thousand inhabitants. There he hoped to find employment, but not succeeding, went on to Clinton, then a part of Lancaster, where he found employment in a fac- tory. It is worthy of record that his first business experience was in a counterpane mill, at sixteen years of age. He remained in this position two years, and by attention to work was promoted to a more lucrative position. By economy he saved suf- ficient money to give him a start in life, and coming to Worcester in 1848 served a short apprenticeship at the trade of machinist.

In 1853 he was the proprietor of a country store in Groton Junetion, now the city of Ayer, Massa- chusetts, but later disposed of this business. He then went west, remaining in Cleveland, Ohio. two years, and in 1857 returned to Worcester, Massa- chusetts. During the following four years he was employed as a salesman. In 1861 he engaged in

manufacturing hoop-skirts under the name of the Worcester Skirt Company. Two or three years later he added the making of corsets to his busi- ness, and as the hoop-skirt gradually passed into disuse, corset making became the principal feature of the business and the title was changed to that of the Worcester Corset Company. It was conducted as a private business until 1888, when it was in- corporated as a stock company. The same pains- taking, diligent attention to business that had char- acterized Mr. Fanning's entire life soon brought his manufactures into universal prominence, and in 1901 another change in the business was made and its name became the Royal Worcester Corset Com- pany. Mr. Fanning began business in a small way at the corner of Main and Front streets, and as it expanded occupied quarters in Franklin square and Hermon street, respectively, finally moving to the extensive and complete factory on Wyman street, erected by the company for its business, where it is at present located. From a very modest begin- ning, by perseverance and faith in the country and its resources, and untiring diligence, Mr. Fanning has developed the great industrial institution known throughout the world, the Royal Worcester Corset Company, with its magnificent plant, branch offices in all the large cities of the country, and business connections in every civilized country on the globe. The Royal Worcester Corset Company's plant is perhaps the largest and most complete in the world of the factories devoted exclusively to the manu- facture of corsets and waists. It has been called the model factory of America. It certainly is one of the model factories of Worcester, and one in which the city takes pride as one of it, institutions. The building has an admirable location near the great Crompton & Knowles loom works. Together these two concerns have had great influence on the growth of the city. The grounds about the buildings of the corset company are artistically laid out with shrubs and lawns, and the buildings are architecturally at- tractive. In construction and equipment the most advanced ideas of modern times have been adopted and changes are constantly made to keep the fac- tory in the front rank. It has often been said that nowhere in the world is there a manufacturing plant of such prominence and employing so large number of hands where there are to be found more pleasant and comfortable arangements for the com- fort and convenience of the employees. The heat- ing and ventilation are perfect; the best electric lighting system to be found has been installed; the sanitary arrangements are as good as those of first class hotels. The employees are provided with a comfortable and spacious dining room, finished in white and with tiled walls and floors, capable of seating nearly one thousand employees. In connec- tion with this a reading room is maintained and supplied with the leading papers and magazines for the exclusive use of employees. More than a thou- sand hands are regularly employed. The offices are large and convenient, and in every department ample provision has been made for the constantly increas- ing business. The power plant of this factory is a model. Mr. Fanning believes in using modern electrical machinery and gives his electrical engi- neer carte blanche when new machinery is to be in- stalled. The machinery used in the factory is of the best and latest patterns. Much of it is designed especially for this class of work, and throughout the plant will be found special machinery adapted to accomplish in the quickest and best manner special kinds of work. The methods and machinery used result in producing goods that are uniform and of standard quality, while much of the foreign goods

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 3

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 732

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732