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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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treasurer of the Great Falls Mfg. Co.,of Somersworth, N. H., and the Dwight Mfg. Co., of Chicopee, Mass.Here also he remained for six years supervising the renovation and re-building of the mills, and placing them in a condition where they havesince become among the most successful mills in the country. In 1876, Mr. Burke received his last appointment, as treasurer of theLowell Machine Shop, of which in his earlier years he had been the firstsuperintendent. Here he remained until declining years advised him thathis work as an active business man was over, and he resigned in 1885.During his treasurership, almost every building was remodeled and enlarged,some new ones were added and the working force was largely increased.Mr. Burke was frequently consulted on matters pertaining to cottonmanufacturing, and he was director of many of the most successful cottonmanufacturing corporations. He was one of the charter members of theNew England Cotton Manufacturers Association (now known as the
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OF THE UNITED STATES 331 National Association of Cotton Manufacturers) and one of its first vice-presidents, from 1865 to 1873. He was one of the original corporatorsof the Mechanics Savings Bank of Lowell, Mass., and its first presidentfrom June, 1861, to June, 1886, when he retired. He took but little active part in politics, but served his city as aldermanfor two years during the Civil War. Mr. Burke was twice married, first to Catherine French, of Bedford,N. H., by whom he had five children; and second to Elizabeth Mary Derby,who survived him, but died in February, 1900. Mr. Burke died in Lowell, Mass., May 28, 1887, at the age of seventy-six years. DAVID ANTHONY BRAYTON David Anthony Brayton, prominent in the business and financialenterprises of Fall River, was born on the 2d of April, 1824, in thevillage of Swansea, Massachusetts, and died in London, England, on the20th of August, 1881. He was the son of Israel and Kezia (Anthony)Brayton, and his ancestry includes many of the pi

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