Identifier: historichomesins01crane (find matches)
Title: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Subjects: Worcester society of antiquity. (from old catalog) Worcester County (Mass.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Worcestersoon became so obvious that in 1866 the loom workswere transferred to this city and first establishedin Allen court, the name of F. B. Knowles appearingin a Worcester directory for the first time in 1867.The older brother contmued his residence in War-ren. Though constantly growing, the business remainedin Allen court until 1879, when it took a move tothe southward and expanded into the so-calledJunction shops. Progress, however, knows noboundaries and the capacity of this location wassoon overtaxed. In 1890, having been erected nearthe Boston & Albany Railroad on the corner ofGrand and Tainter streets, the most extensive plantof its kind in the country, the business was re-moved for the third time into quarters seeminglyample for years of development, yet in 1892, beforethe blight of the Wilson Bill had struck the nation,enlarged area was again in urgent demand. Duringall these years of growth and prosperity, the youngerof the Knowles Brothers was constantly at his post.
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(f>r^^^u>^^^ WORCESTER COUNTY 123 an invaluable factor in all the many features of thevast enterprise. Of the older brother, it is said thathe never sold a machine, gave little heed to thepurely business details of the enterprise, but busiedhimself with the endless possibilities in the mechan-ism of loom making. On the contrary, F. R. had nomechanical tastes nor talent, could not drive a nail,but the pushing of the manufactured articles intopublic sight and favor was his delight. The financialside of the work he could and did handle marvel-ously well, till at his death he could truthfully say,had he cared to do so, that the Knowles LoomWorks were the most extensive in the country, ifnot in the world. The limitations of human strength and energyspeedily appear in the strenuous life which theardent Americans lead and, long before the KnowlesBrothers had reached the age at which their fatherswere • still doing long and arduous days work ontheir respective farms, these princes of

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