Identifier: historichomesins04crane (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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e district school of thevillage, which he attended irregularly for severalyears, and he was a student at Nichols Academy,Dudley, at ^lonson Academy, two terms at eachinstitution. For a short time he was employed inthe store kept by Milton Joslin, after w-hich he en-tered upon an apprenticeship with the ColumbianManufacturing Company, engaged in the manufac-ture of cotton sheetings. After serving one year inthe machine-shop, he was employed in turn in everydepartment of the mill, learning to card, spin andweave. Being anxious to gain a more thorcughknowledge of the weaving of cotton fabrics than thefacilities of the small weaving-room at this millaflforded, in the spring of 1838 he obtained a situa-tion in the weaving department in charge of NelsonDrake, at Fiskdale Mills. In the spring of 1840 heentered the companys counting-room to obtain aknowledge of mercantile, manufacturing and doubleentrv bookkeeping, under the instruction of AveryP. Taylor. In September, 1840, he was engaged to
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WORCESTER COUNTY 265 take charge of a mill of four thousand spindles atSwift Creek, near Petersburg, Virginia, where heremained for two years. In November, 1S4J, heassumed the management of the cotton-mill locatedat Westville, and at the same time kept the factorystore. In the spring of 1845 he removed from West-ville to take charge of the Dresser Mill, in the Cen-ter village, and in December, 1845, became the super-intendent of the Central Manufacturing Company,where he remained until 1857, having in the mean-time become one of the stockholders. For a shortperiod of time he was manager of the upper level,embracing three mills and dye house, of the Amos-keag Manufacturing Company, of Manchester, NewHampshire. In 1859 he returned to Southbridge inorder to attempt a settlement of the affairs of theCentral -Manufacturing Company, which had becomefinancially embarrassed, and he and Manning Leon-ard became joint owners of the property, and con-tinued the business until the breakuig out of

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