Bay State Monthly, Vol. I, No. 3, March, 1884 by Various


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[Illustration: WORTHEN-STREET METHODIST CHURCH.]

The agents of the proprietors of the Tremont Mills were Israel Whitney,
1831; John Aiken, 1834; Charles L. Tilden, 1837; Charles F. Battles,
1858; Thomas S. Shaw, 1870. The agent of Tremont and Suffolk Mills is
Thomas S. Shaw, appointed August 19, 1871. These mills make jeans,
cotton flannels, drillings, sheetings, shirtings and print cloth.

The Lawrence Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1831. The
treasurers have been William Appleton, 1831; Henry Hall, 1832; Henry V.
Ward, 1857; T. Jefferson Coolidge, 1868; Lucius M. Sargent, 1880. The
agents have been William Austin, 1830; John Aiken, 1837; William S.
Southworth, 1849; William F. Salmon, 1865; Daniel Hussey, 1869; John
Kilburn, 1878. The company makes shirtings, sheetings, cotton flannels,
and cotton and merino hosiery.

[Illustration: GEORGE WELLMAN.
Born in Boston, March 16, 1810. Died April 4, 1864.]

The Boott Cotton Mills were incorporated in 1835. The treasurers have
been John Amory Lowell, 1835; J. Pickering Putnam, 1848; T. Jefferson
Coolidge, 1858; Richard D. Rogers, 1865; Augustus Lowell, 1875. The
agents have been Benjamin F. French, 1836; Linus Child, 1845; William A.
Burke, 1862; Alexander G. Cumnock, 1868. The company makes sheetings,
shirtings, and printing cloth.

The Massachusetts Cotton Mills were incorporated in 1838. The treasurers
have been John Amory Lowell, 1839; Homer Bartlett, 1848; George
Atkinson, 1872. The agents have been Homer Bartlett, 1840; Joseph White,
1848; Frank F. Battles, 1856. The mills turn out sheetings, shirtings,
and drillings.

[Illustration: LEE-STREET UNITARIAN CHURCH.
Now French Catholic. Enlarged and rebuilt.]

The Lowell Machine Shop was incorporated in 1845. The treasurers have
been J. Thomas Stevenson, 1845; William A. Burke, from 1876. The agents
have been William A. Burke, 1845; Mertoun C. Bryant, 1862; Andrew Moody,
1862; George Richardson, 1870; Charles L. Hildreth, 1879. The company
makes all kinds of machinery for mills.

The Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimack River were incorporated
in 1792. The treasurers have been Joseph Cutler, 1792; W.W. Prout,
1804; Samuel Cutler, 1809; Samuel Tenney, 1817; Kirk Boott, 1822; Joseph
Tilden, 1837; P.T. Jackson, 1838; John T. Morse, 1845. The agents have
been Kirk Boott, 1822; Joseph Tilden, 1837; William Boott, 1838; James
B. Francis, 1845, to present date.

[Illustration: PRESCOTT-STREET CHURCH.]

The Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was
incorporated in 1831. The presidents were Abbott Lawrence, from August,
1846, to July, 1850; Henry Hall, to June, 1856; Francis B. Crowinshield,
to August, 1857; John Amory Lowell, to June, 1864; J. Thomas Stevenson,
to June, 1877; Richard S. Fay, until his decease, March 7, 1882. The
treasurers were James Bell, from 1845 until his decease, in May, 1857;
Francis B. Crowinshield, to October, 1861; J. Thomas Stevenson, to June,
1864; Homer Bartlett, to June, 1872; Charles S. Storrow, to June, 1878;
James A. Dupee, to June, 1882. Directors, 1883: Charles Storrow,
president; James A. Dupee, Augustus Lowell, Howard Stockton, George
Atkinson. Clerk of corporation, Augustus T. Owen; treasurer, George
Atkinson; agent, T.P. Hutchinson. The company guards the storage of
water at Lake Winnipiseogee.

[Illustration: LOWELL MACHINE SHOP About 1860.]

[Illustration: APPLETON MILLS. 1845.]

Nor would a sketch of Lowell be complete without mention of the firm of
J.C. Ayer and Company. Dr. J.C. Ayer started the business in 1837, when
he offered to physicians the prescription of cherry pectoral. It soon
became a very popular remedy, and he was soon embarked in the enterprise
of manufacturing it. Liter he added to the list of his proprietary
medicines cathartic pills, sarsaparilla, ague cure, and hair vigor. He
died July 3, 1878, after having accumulated a princely fortune. His
brother, and partner, Frederick Ayer, conducts the business. The firm
occupy several large buildings and employ three hundred people. The
world demands fifteen tons of Ayer's pills yearly. They publish thirteen
million almanacs, in ten languages, issuing twenty-six editions for
different localities, keeping several large presses constantly at work.

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