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Title: Forty immortals of Worcester & its county. A brief account of those natives or residents who have accomplished something for their community or for the nation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Bank & Trust Company, Worcester, Mass Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography Worcester County (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: (Boston, Mass. : Walton advertising & printing company)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a yeoman of Belper, Derbyshire, England, was born June9, 1768. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to Jedediah Strutt,who was associated with Sir Richard Arkwright in the manufacture ofcotton-making machinery. After serving eight years, during the latterpart of which young Slater was superintendent of the Strutt mill, theyoung man turned his attention to America, where fruitless efforts hadbeen made to manufacture cotton machinery. In a Philadelphia paperhe read of a bounty of £100 paid by the Legislature of Pennsylvania foran imperfect carding machine. Without the knowledge of his familyhe sailed for America, September 13, 1789, and on landing in New Yorksecured employment with the New York Manufacturing Company. It was while there that Slater learned of Moses Browns interest inspinning-machinery, and he wrote the rich Quaker, saying, I flattermyself that I can give the greatest satisfaction in making machinery.At once Moses Brown invited the young man to go to Providence. 23
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FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & IIS COUNTY If Samuel Slaters enthusiasm was high when he left New York, itsank to zero point when Moses Brown showed him the machines thathad been built in Pawtucket, where his mill was located. These willnot do, said Slater. They are good for nothing in their present con-dition, nor can they be made to answer. Thee said, replied Moses Brown, that thee could make macliinery.Why not do it.^ Slater set to work and thus it came about that he built the first suc-cessful cotton machinery in America, and that Pawtucket, Rhode Island,became the cradle of cotton manufacture. So successful was SamuelSlaters undertaking that the thrifty Moses Brown, on perceiving thegreat amount of yarn that had been spun the first year, said, Theemust shut down thy wheels, Samuel, or thee will spin all my farms intocotton yarn. When Slater sent some of his yarn to Strutt and Ark-wright in England the product was pronounced as good as their own. It was in Pawtucket that Samuel

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