Identifier: lambstextileindu01brow (find matches)
Title: Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917 Foster, E. Everton Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858
Subjects: Textile industry -- United States Industrialists
Publisher: Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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ollege. He wastreasurer of the former for many years, and it was mainly through hisefforts that the academy was rebuilt promptly after a disastrous fire. In1880 he was elected one of the Board of Trustees of Tufts College, and.served as a member of the Executive Board and as chairman of theFinance Committee. He held the nftice of president of the Board ofTrustees for over ten years. He was brought up in the Universalist Church,and the Universalist Sabbath School Union was presided over by him formany years. The Massachusetts General Convention of that body owesmuch of its present financial condition to his thirty-five years as president.The Universalist General Convention fthe national organization) electedhim its president for many successive years, and he afterward served aschairman of its Board of Trustees. As treasurer of the UniversalistPublishing House for thirty years, he had the satisfaction of seeing thatinstitution firmly establi.shed. He was father of the Universalist Club,
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J.IMBSH.I^tMB CO OF THE UNITED STATES 351 I rarely missing one of its meetings. He always lived in Boston, and duringthe last twenty-six years of his life he resided at No. 364 Boylston Street.His widow, a son, Franklin Lawrence, and a daughter, Mrs. ArthurE. Mason, survived him. Mr. Joy died in Boston, Oct. 4, 1898. EDGAR HARDING. Edgar Harding was born in Millville, Massachusetts, Dec. 5, 1844,son of Charles Lewis and Julia Ann (Bowen) Harding, and a de-scendant of the first settler of the name, Abraham Harding, a leatherdresser and glover by trade, who was born in England about 1615 and cameto Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first record of his name appearing onthe register of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638.Early in 1639 he married Elizabeth Harding, who came from England toBoston in 1635, being then thirteen years of age. In 1642 Abraham Harding removed to Braintree. There he unitedwith the church, took the freemans oath, and by purchase became possessedof a to

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