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The educational facilities of the town are supple- mented by two public libraries : the East Medway Circulating Library and the Dean Public Library. The Dean Library Association was incorporated March 3, 1860. By the munificence of the late Dr. Dean they have a capital of about five thou- sand dollars, the income of which goes to support the Dean Public Library, which has some twenty-five hundred volumes. This library is accommodated with a convenient room in Sanford Hall.
Sanford Hall was erected, 1872, at a cost of about sixteen thousand dollars, in Medway Village. It was dedicated Dec. 31, 1872, by appropriate services, and named for the largest donor to its building fund, school committee increased to nine members. The | Milton A. Sanford, Esq., of New York, but a native of Medway.
Theodore W. Fisher, M.D., of Boston, son of Hon. M. M. Fisher, of Medway, gave an historical address on the occasion, and Rev. R. K. Harlow made the
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address of dedication. The lower story of the building is occupied by stores and the Dean Public Library. The second story is devoted to a public hall, with convenient anterooms. The third story is devoted to several smaller halls used for various pur- poses.
Partridge Hall was erected in 1876, in East Med- way, by the enterprise of one of the active citizens of the place, whose name it bears.
Numerous organizations in the town, such as fire- companies, Lodges of Masons and Odd-Fellows, East Medway Improvement Society, and Patrons of Indus- try, co-operate to render the population intelligent, social, and thriving.
Industrial .- Medway has always been somewhat largely an agricultural town, farming being the occu- pation of the people outside of the village centres.
The small water-power within the limits of the town has been utilized, and in later years supplemented with steam. A variety of manufactures have been produced. Hardly had a settlement on the west side of the river Charles been commenced, when we find the town of Medfield making a grant in 1659 to Robert Hinsdell of "forty-six acres lying on the other side of Boggastow Brook," in payment for " the bell" with which he had provided the town for their church. And very soon, 1663, Boggastow mill-dam is mentioned, and in 1665, Robert Hinsdell's mill was a fact. This first mill was doubtless for grinding corn. Mr. Hinsdell sold it in 1669 to Peter Woodward, and it was burned by the Indians some- time prior to 1676, but probably rebuilt, as Hinsdell's mill is mentioned in 1677. In 1680, Medfield voted to grant fifty acres of land to encourage the building of a mill on Charles River, and to exempt the mill from taxes for seven years. This proposal was ac- cepted, and the first mill at the Bent, now Rockville, was built by the following owners :
the common land on the brook," and " to flow the common land so far as shall be convenient for a mill at all times forever." Joseph Daniell had become the proprietor of the old mill site, " the place where Peter Woodward's stood," for he gave it to his son in 1693. This mill site is thus described : " The land where the old mill stood being two acres more or less, a highway to pass through the same." This was the site of the Hinsdell mill which was burned by the Indians. In later times it was known as Bullard's mill, afterwards as Fisher's mill, then as Partridge's mill, and was at last purchased by M. H. Collins, Esq., and removed to make way for straight- ening the highway, so that the road now passes over the spot first selected for the erection of a mill by Robert Hinsdell, on the west side of the Charles. At just what date the mill further up the Boggestow Brook, known as Daniell's mill, was built is not known. But Joseph Daniell, Jr., built a saw-mill there, and the property was held in the Daniel's name until re- cent date, although no mill has been there for some years, the last Daniels proprietor being Cyrus Dan- iels, whose grandfather, Moses Daniels, was drowned in 1800 in the flume while shutting the gate. The mills on the Charles River were as follows : one near where the mill of George Barber and others was built, known as the Richardson and Ellis' mill, not far from the site of the present factories in Rockville; Whiting's mill, near Medway Village not far from the New Sanford Mill. There were Cutler's mill on Chicken Brook, on the road to Holliston, and another mill on the same stream near its junction with the Charles River, a site occupied in later times by Campbell's paper-factory. Among the earliest cotton-mills in the State was the " Medway Cotton Manufactory," located upon the site of the old saw- and grist-mill, erected by Nathaniel Whiting on the Charles River, at a point near Med- way Village.
John Metcalf, Sr., John Partridge, Sr., Samuel It appears that Luther Metcalf, Sr., Philo Sanford, Abijah Richardson, William Felt, Comfort Walker, Nathaniel Miller, and John Blackburn entered into a formal agreement, May 14, 1805, as associates " for the purpose of carding and spinning and manufac- turing cotton in all its various branches." John Black- burn was a practical manufacturer, having been in the employ of Samuel Slater, who was the founder of cotton-mills in this country. The first mill erected was sixty by thirty feet, two stories high. It was completed and went into operation in March, 1807, with machinery to operate eight hundred and twenty spindles. The exact date of the introduction of looms for weaving in this mill is unknown. These Morse, Edward Adams, Joseph Allen, John Metcalf, Jr., Nathaniel Allen, George Barber, Ephraim Wight, Samuel Barber, John Plympton, and Benjamin Wheelock. This mill was burned prior to 1685, and " Gamaliel Hinsdell was appointed by the selectmen to prosecute John Sunchamaug, an Indian, upon sus- picion of firing the new mill." How soon this mill was rebuilt is not known. But Feb. 7, 1687, the town granted to Joseph Daniell " the stream of Bog- gastow Brook, so far as it shall be needful to the ad- vantage of his mill, and not damage the proprietors on said brook, provided he maintains a good mill on said stream, for the supply of the town." The fol- lowing year they gave him leave " to land a dam on | associated manufacturers of cotton added Lyman
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Tiffany to their number, and were incorporated by the | has been an important industry of the town. In General Court as the Medway Cotton Manufactory, 1837 there were manufactured more than thirty thousand straw bonnets, valued at forty thousand dol- lars. The value of straw goods manufactured in 1874 was nearly two hundred thousand dollars. by a special charter approved March 4, 1809. On Sunday, Oct. 20, 1811, this mill was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt and running by the close of that year. The new mill erected stood for seventy years. There have been and are various other industrial interests in the town. One of the oldest church- bell foundries in the country was established in East Medway in 1815, by Maj. George Holbrook, and for many years Holbrook's bells from thousands of church steeples from Maine to Texas have summoned the people to worship. In the same part of Medway, clocks, church organs, and organ pipes have been manufactured for some years. Messrs. Ware, organ- pipe manufacturers, made the pipes for the great organ in the Colliseum building, Boston, at the time of the Jubilee. E. L. Holbrook, Esq., still carries on the man- ufacture of church organs of a very superior quality, being himself a practical musician of rare gifts. There are several corn-canning establishments; one of the largest is that of the late James La Croix, Esq. The corporation had for its agent and treasurer Lyman Tiffany from 1809 to 1819, when Dr. Oliver Dean was elected, and served seven years, until 1826. Dr. Dean was succeeded by Luther Metcalf, Jr., who held the position thirty-eight years, until the corporation dissolved, which occurred after the sale of the property in 1864. Soon after it was purchased by William A. Jenckes, of Woonsocket, and for fifteen years operated in the manufacture of flax, under the name of Med- way Flax Company. Aug. 10, 1881, the property was conveyed by Mr. Jenckes to the Sanford Mill Corpo- ration for fifteen thousand dollars. The old mill was sold at auction Aug. 17, 1881, for one dollar and fifty cents, to be removed in ten days. The site is now occupied by a substantial brick building for the manufacture of fine woolen fabrics. It is called the Sanford New Mill.
In 1837 there were running two thousand four hun- dred spindles, and the production of cotton goods was nearly a half-million of yards, valued at about fifty ' thousand dollars. The production of woolen goods was some seventy-six thousand yards, valued at seventy-two thousand dollars. There were at that date also man- ufactured cotton wadding and cotton batting to some extent.
From the cotton-mill of Medway, it is said, " grad- uated many of the men who were to lay the founda- tions of Lowell, Manchester, and other manufacturing places, and build for themselves colossal fortunes."
The manufacture of boots and shoes has been for more than fifty years the prominent business of the town. In 1837 this industry employed about three hundred persons, the production that year being forty thousand pairs of boots and about a hundred thousand pairs of shoes, valued at nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The manufacture of boots has largely superseded that of shoes, and the business now gives employment to four hundred persons, and the annual production exceeds a million of dollars.
There are manufactured awls, boxes, mallets, monu- ments, paper wrapping, bricks, and other products to a considerable extent.
Military .- The Revolutionary Period .- The town of Medway as early as 1765 expressed anxiety and the spirit of patriotic resistance of British oppres- sion by giving instructions to her representative, Elisha Adams, of that year, and by various acts in the next ten ensuing years declarative of her full sympathy with the colonists in their opposition to the encroachments on the liberties of the people. In January, 1775, the town voted thirty pounds " to encourage the enlisting of a number of able-bodied men to the number of one-quarter of the military soldiers to complete and hold themselves in readiness to march at the shortest notice." These were called " minute-men."
The following names appear as those who had en- dured sufferings and hardships in the Continental service of 1776-77 :
Lieut. Joshua Gould. John Barber.
Joshua Bullard. Seth Mann.
Joseph Clark. Jesse Richardson.
Jonas Brick. Paul Holbrook.
Jedediah Phillips. Joshua Morse.
The straw braid and bonnet industry commenced David Hagur. Abial Pratt. in Medway about the year 1800. The braiding of Simpson Jones. Ichabod Hawes, Jr. straw was carried on in families and exchanged at the Joel Morse. Samuel Partridge. stores for goods. About 1810, Capt. William Felt Jonathan Graves. James Barber. commenced to manufacture it into bonnets. In John Hill. John Allen. 1830 the weaving of imported straw was introduced. Jotham Ellis. In 1840, Hon. M. M. Fisher established straw goods A full list of those who served in the army of the manufacturing, which has continued in operation and | Revolution from the town of Medway cannot be given,
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but she did her full share in creating a patriotic senti- ment, in fighting the battles, and in enduring the hard- ships of the Revolutionary period.
The War of 1812 .- Medway furnished soldiers to vindicate the national rights and resist British encroachments.
The War of the Union. - In the late war the record of Medway will compare favorably with that of any town in the old Bay State, both in furnishing men, money, and in works of beneficence to relieve the sufferings of sick and disabled soldiers. The town took action as early as 1862 to have prepared a care- ful record of her soldiers. This action antedated by nearly a year that of the Commonwealth, and it may have been the first action of the kind taken within . the State. As a result, the town of Medway has | a brief biographical sketch of all her Union soldiers. The whole number of soldiers sent into the field under the various calls of the President was three hun- dred and eighty-four. The whole number of different | men sent was three hundred and sixty-nine.
The following are the names of two hundred and fifty-eight Union soldiers, residents of Medway, who served in the war of the Union, 1861-65 :
Charles H. Everett.
Frank W. Kimball.
George B. Everett. John M. Fales.
George H. Kingsbury. Charles G. Kingsbury.
Albert F. Fales.
Frank Kaney.
James E. Fales.
Horatio T. Leonard.
Frank L. Fisher.
James E. Lawrence.
George H. Fisher.
William Lilley.
Lewis L. Fisher.
Albert W. Mann.
Willard P. Fisher.
Frank V. Mann.
Theodore W. Fisher, M.D.
James B. May.
Emmons Force.
Edward A. May.
Silas Force.
George W. Mahr.
Julius A. Fitts.
William M. Martin.
Thomas Flaherty.
Peter Mann.
James Blake Flaherty.
Charles Magorty.
Charles F. Fuller.
Thomas H. Matthews.
Amos L. Fuller.
William F. Merritt.
George A. Fuller.
Lewis L. Miller.
Michael Fitzgerald.
James Mitchell.
James Fitzgerald.
James S. Mitchell.
George Edmund Fuller.
Milton H. Morse.
James A. Gale, M.D.
Amos B. Morse.
James M. Grant.
Robert T. Morse.
Frank S. Grant.
Frederic D. Morse.
Edwin A. Grant.
Eleazer Morse.
Harrison G. O. Grant.
Alex. L. B. Monroe, M.D.
George O. Grant.
F. L. B. Monroe, M.D.
John Gormly.
Daniel Mundon.
Charles A. Grant.
James McCowen.
Isaac C. Greenwood.
Gilbert McCullom.
John T. Greenwood.
Daniel McAlwey.
George E. Greenwood.
James McLaughlin.
George H. Greenwood.
Richard B. McElroy.
Daniel Ackley.
John Coad.
Stephen P. Adams.
Albert H. Clark.
George W. Adams.
David A. Clark.
William Adams.
Edmund Clark.
Patrick Gallagher.
John Nolan.
Erastus Adams.
Lieut. Charles Clark.
Charles Grant.
William A. Nolan.
Charles A. Adams.
James Warren Clark.
Peter Harrington.
John Nolan, Jr.
Calvin Adams.
Sewall J. Clark.
Thomas J. Harrington.
Michael O'Donnell.
Eliakim A. J. Adams.
Albert L. Clark.
Edward P. Hart.
John O'Hara.
George H. Allen.
Warren A. Clark.
William Hawes.
William R. Parsons.
William O. Andrews.
Asa Clark.
William C. Hawes.
David A. Partridge.
George H. Andrews.
Charles S. Clark.
John Harney.
Warren J. Partridge.
Alfred Ashton.
Joseph C. Clifford.
Addison T. Hastings.
William S. Partridge.
Albert A. Ballou.
William Hiram Chace.
George B. Hardy.
George V. Partridge.
George W. Bancroft.
Alex. Metcalf Cushing.
Newell Barber.
Charles E. Cummings.
George W. Ballou.
Frederick F. Clark.
John Henry.
George Otis Pond.
Adin P. Blake.
William B. Clark.
James H. Heaton.
Edwin C. Pond.
George F. Browne.
Alfred Clifford.
Edmund W. Hill.
Edwin D. Pond.
Henry W. Brown, M.D. Aaron Browne.
William A. Daniels.
Moses Hill.
Oscar A. Pond.
Robert W. Brown.
Charles H. Daniels.
John Higgins.
Elmer H. Pond.
Edmund M. Bullen.
Henry J. Daniels.
George H. Hixon.
Jonathan Pitcher.
Albert E. Bullard.
Henry R. Dain.
Egbert Oswell Hixon.
Ezra Pierson.
Lewis Buffum.
Alonzo M. Dain.
Edward Hogan.
John A. Pierce.
George W. Bullard.
Davis S. Darling.
Albert C. Houghton.
Asa D. Prescott.
Joel P. Bullard.
Jesse Darling.
Alvin W. Houghton.
Franklin Proctor.
Charles E. Burr. John W. Cass.
Francis T. Dodge.
Edwin H. Hosmer.
Martin W. Phipps.
Charles E, Carey.
Charles M. Disper.
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Edwin HI. Holbrook.
Benjamin F. Remick.
Alfred A. Carey.
Alonzo Dunton.
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George H. Ide.
Timothy Reardon.
John Carr.
William H. Dunbar.
Edmund A. Jones.
Patrick Regan.
Timothy Coughlin.
Amos A. Dugan. 1
Charles C. Kimball.
Addison W. Richardson.
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Milton S. Adams.
Charles H. Cole.
Sidney W. Allen.
D. Frank Covell.
Joseph A. Greenwood.
George L. Meyer.
John Glancy.
William D. Newland.
John P. Green.
George G. Nourse.
Michael Hart.
George E. Pettis.
Daniel Hammond.
William H. Pettis.
William D. Daniels.
Alonzo Hixon.
George E. Pond.
Edwin S. Davis.
Dennis Hosmer.
Stephen F. Purdy.
John G. Hosmer.
George H. Read.
Samuel B. Carey.
Shubael E. Dunbar.
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Henry S. Richardson.
Benjamin C. Tinkham.
Henry H. Rich.
Charles H. Torrey.
Emory Richardson.
John Tevlin.
George S. Rice.
Jeremiah Vose.
James G. Richards.
Albert Vallet. Albert L. Vallet.
Thomas Rollins.
Henry M. Rockwood.
John II. Vallet.
Brougham Roberts.
George C. Webber.
Michael Slaven.
J. Welch, alias J. Blake.
Chandler W. Sanders.
George HI. Williams.
George S. Sandford.
Allen T. Williams.
John Scott.
Horace J. Wilmarth.
Michael Schofield.
John Willey.
George F. Simpson.
Charles E. Williams.
William Smith.
Albert HI. Wiley.
Edmond J. Smith.
Charles Whitney.
John F. Stratton.
Henry Wheat.
George Herbert Stratton.
Alfred C. Wheat.
Henry L. Snell.
James Whitcomb.
Herman S. Sparrow.
Charles E. Whitney.
Phillip O. Sparrow.
George W. Whitney.
Frederic Swarman.
Lewis Wheeler.
John H. Swarman.
Henry A. Wood.
Lewis A. Treen.
Daniel S. Woodman.
John S. Treen.
Emory Wood.
William H. Turner.
Samuel P. White.
Lucius M. Turner.
Robert O. Young.
William H. Thomas.
Orson D. Young.
Miscellaneous .- There are four Post-offices in Medway. The first Post-office was established in Medway village in the spring of 1803. Capt. Wil- liam Felt was appointed the first Postmaster. His first quarterly return was made July 1, 1803, Gideon Granger being Postmaster-General. The office was kept in Capt. Felt's store, which stood near the pres- ent residence of Mrs. Hathon. The mail was carried by a post-rider, who went over the route once a week. 1 The postage was from six to twenty-five cents per let- ter, according to the distance carried. At this date | there were less than thirteen hundred post-offices in the whole country. The successors of Capt. William Felt, as postmasters in this office, have been Warren Lovering, Esq., Sewall Sanford, James B. Wilson, Clark Partridge, Samuel W. Metcalf, Collins Hathon, O. A. Mason, and, since 1864, H. E. Mason, the pres- | ent incumbent. The office has been kept in Sanford Hall since 1873.
The second post-office was established in East Med- way March 17, 1819. Timothy Hammond, Esq., was appointed the first Postmaster, and the office was kept in the house of Adam Bullard, late residence of James La Croix, Esq. The successors of Timothy Hammond, Esq., have been Nathan Jones, George Holbrook, Deacon Milton Daniels, Mrs. Mariam Daniels, and George B. Fisher, who was appointed in 1877, and is the present incumbent. The office has been in Partridge Hall since 1876.
The third post-office was established Sept. 19, 1834, 1
in West Medway. The first Postmaster in this office was Olney Foristall, and the office was kept in the house, then a hotel, but now the residence of James Coombs, Esq. Mr. Foristall has been succeeded by Simeon Fuller, Deacon Daniel Wiley, Levi P. Col- burn, Stephen Partridge, Jason Smith, Gilbert Nourse, John Cushing, Lewis Clark, J. N. Tourtellotte, Mrs. Mary A. Tourtellotte, and Vincent Moses, the present incumbent.
The fourth post-office in Medway was established Feb. 23, 1838, in Rockville. Deacon Timothy Walker was appointed the first Postmaster. His successors have been Eliab B. Blake, John S. Walker, Erastus H. Tyler, and Frederic Swarman, the present incumbent.
The following persons have received appointment to the office of Justice of the Peace by the Governor and Council, in the order in which their names occur. The first received appointment in 1736 :
Edward Clark.
Clark Partridge.
Elijah Clark.
Charles H. Fitts.
Jonathan Adams.
William B. Boyd.
Abijah Richardson, M.D.
William H. Cary.
Joseph Lovell.
Asa M. B. Fuller.
Eliakim Adams.
Alpheus C. Grant.
Aaron Adams.
Austin S. Cushman.
John Ellis, Jr.
John S. Smith.
Abner Morse.
James P. Clark.
John Richardson.
Charles H. Deans.
Timothy Hammond.
Wales Kimball.
Amos Turner.
Abram S. Harding.
Joseph L. Richardson.
Charles B. Whitney.
William Felt.
W. H. Temple.
Thaddeus Lovering.
William Daniels.
Luther Metcalf.
Amos H. Boyd.
Warren Lovering.
Willard P. Clark.
Levi Adams.
Addison P. Thayer.
Luther Metcalf, Jr.
Edward Eaton.
Christopher Slocum.
Marcellus A. Woodward.
James Lovering.
George P. Metcalf.
Joseph Adams.
Alexander Fairbanks.
Nathan Jones.
Joel E. Hunt.
Joel Hunt. Orion A. Mason.
Artemas Brown.
Erastus H. Tyler.
Elisha Cutler.
Israel P. Quimby.
John P. Jones.
David A. Partridge.
Horatio Mason.
James H. Ellis.
Milton M. Fisher.
Frederick L. Fisher.
Seneca Barber.
Of the above, John Ellis, Jr., was Associate Justice of the County Court of Sessions.
Joseph L. Richardson and Luther Metcalf, Jr., were Justices of the Quorum ; Warren Lovering and Milton M. Fisher were Justices of the Peace and Quorum for the whole State ; Asa M. B. Fuller and Charles H. Deans were Trial Justices; and Milton M. Fisher was Notary Public.
Joseph Ware was appointed Coroner in 1794. His
Mitt. Sanford.
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successors have been Ralph Bullard, Zachariah Lovell, | and Valentine Coombs.
In 1877 Charles A. Bemis, M.D., was appointed Medical Examiner.
Cemeteries, 1700-1884 .- The town of Medfield, | March 4, 1700, " voted that the inhabitants on the west side of Charles River shall have two acres of | land for a burying-place whare they and a committee chosen by the selectmen for that end shall order it in any of the Town commons there." It does not ap- pear that this ground was laid out until Medway was incorporated, but burials were made in the Medfield burying-ground and in that of the south part of Sher- born. We find, however, that at a meeting of the legal voters of the town of Medway, held Oct. 29, 1714, at the house of Peter Adams, of which The- ophilus Clark was the moderator, it was " voted, that the burying place should be upon Bare Hill, sum whare within forty Rods of the meeting-house," and a "commity was chosen by the vote of the Town to joyn with the committy y Medfield have chose to lay out a burying place, who are, Cpt. george Fair- banks and Zackri Partridge and John Richardson."
This cemetery was the first and only one in the town for some years. It has been enlarged and beautified, and is still used by the people of the East Parish as the burial-place of the dead.
The second cemetery laid out was in the West Precinct, probably about the time of the erection of the first church in 1750. It was located near the church, as was customary in those days, and has been greatly enlarged and improved.
Oakland Cemetery is a third place of burial located near Medway Village. This is a beautiful spot, and was appropriately consecrated to its sacred purposes by a service held June 20, 1865. The Scriptures were read by Rev. David Sanford, the prayer was offered by Rev. Jacob Lee, D.D., and an address made by Rev. Jacob Roberts.
The first burial in these newly-consecrated grounds was that of Mrs. Mary Darling, who died Oct. 26, 1865, at the age of one hundred and two years, five months, and ten days. At a little distance from Oak- land Cemetery in 1876 was laid out the Catholic Cemetery.
Many quaint inscriptions are to be found on the older gravestones in the East and West Parish ceme- teries. On the gravestone of one, Phineas Allen, is found the following inscription :
" Behold and see as you pass by, As you are now 80 once was I ; As I am now, so you must be, Prepare to die and follow me."
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
MILTON HOLBROOK SANFORD.
Milton Holbrook Sanford, the oldest child of Sewall and Edena ( Holbrook ) Sanford, was born in Medway, Mass., Aug. 29, 1813.
He inherited eminent ancestral respectability from both parents, his father being a grandson of the elo- quent and well-known divine, the Rev. David San- ford, for thirty-seven years pastor of the Second Con- gregational Church, Medway, and his mother a descendant of the sixth generation from Thomas Hol- brooke, of Broudway, England, who sailed from Wey- mouth, England, March 20, 1635, with his family and one hundred other emigrants, bound for New England. He settled in Weymouth, Mass., from whence his worthy posterity have gone out into all the land.
The boy Milton early exhibited traits that were prophetic of his future. He was self-reliant, cour- ageous, generous, and frank, a champion in all athletic sports and contests. His education, beyond that afforded by the schools of his native village, was ob- tained at a military school (taught by Capt. Alden Partridge) in Middletown, Conn., and subsequently at the academies in Bradford and Andover, Mass.
When seventeen years of age his school-life was terminated by the death of his father, the manage- ment of whose extensive and varied business was in- trusted to him, a trust that he very successfully dis- charged, as the agent of the estate, until experience made him competent to assume the business as princi- pal.
After a successful career in Medway, he disposed of his business there and removed to Boston, where he opened an office for the sale of Southern products. This enterprise gave him acquaintance at the South, and prepared the way for the extensive business opera- tions which he subsequently carried on in that section. Leasing a mill in Canton, Mass., he commenced the manufacture of a strong cotton fabric, much in use on the plantations of the South. After working this mill for ten years, his need of better facilities induced him to buy a mill property in Southborough, Mass., where he erected a substantial and adequate factory. His success in this enterprise was exceptional. By a process of which he held the monopoly he utilized the fibre of jute for the manufacture of plantation cloth, which sold readily, and at a handsome profit.
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