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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
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Publisher: (Boston, Mass., Walton advertising & printing company)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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rill E. Fur-bush began to manufacture looms. Just as the business began to pros-per, the fire of 1854 destroyed the buildings and swept away all of Mr.Cromptons property. He was advised at this time to go into bank-ruptcy, but this he refused to do, and going personally to every creditorhe asked for an extension of time, which was given him. He beganagain, having previously dissolved his partnership. The Civil War brokeout, and his business suffered. Temporarily he returned to the manu-facture of pistols. At this time his inventive genius asserted itself, andthe crude invention made by his father was gone over, perfected, andsuited to the highest needs of fancy cashmere weaving. Mr. Cromptontook out during his lifetime two hundred and twelve patents in Americaand foreign countries. Reverses again came to the Crompton Company during the panic of1877, but Mr. Crompton placed his entire fortune at the disposal of thefirm during its embarrassment. He was devoted to the public interests 67
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i. Stephen Salisbury, 3rd.2. William Huntington 3. Alice Morse Earle FORTY IMMORTALS of WORCESTER & ITS COUNTY of Worcester, and served the city in several capacities. His death oc-curred in Worcester, December 29, 1886. At the time of his death hewas the sole owner of the Crompton Loom Works, the largest employerof labor, and the possessor of one of the largest properties in the city.Mr. Cromptons exactitude in financial matters has been frequently thesubject of comment. During his earlier business years, says hisbiographer, he once found pay-day approaching and no funds to meetit. He at once started on a collecting tour. The evening before pay-dayfound him with money in his pocket, but on the wrong side of the Con-necticut River, swollen with a spring freshet and filled with large cakes ofice, and no bridge in the neighborhood upon which to cross. He hunteduntil he found a boatman with a small boat, who was willing to risk hislife for an adequate compensation, and the two starte

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