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Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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g at Northampton and elsewhere, which were patrioticallyclaimed to be superior to the imported goods. The wool-supply was not yetsufficient for the needs of the country. But a merino-fever was raging : woolrose to a dollar and a half and two dollars a pound; heavy importations ofsheep were taking place, and farmers giving a degree of attention to breeding,incited thereto by the high prices, which promised ere long to give the manu-facturers an ample supply of excellent and cheap home-grown fleece. Thewar of 1812 gave afresh impulse to manufacturing; and, during those threeyears in which it was in progress, it was impossible to take up a newspaperwithout seeing in it some notice of a new woollen-factory which had beenstarted, or some new style of American-made woollen-goods which manufac-turers were essaying to make. OF THE UNITED STATES. 375 The census of 1810 reported that the manufacture of wool was at thattime still mostly in families. The production was roughly valued at $25,608,-
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FAVEY BROAD LOOM. 788. Although the spinning-jenny, the power-loom, the nap-cutter, andvarious ingenious machines, were now in practical use in factories, Householdthis household manufacture appears to have been a thing the manufac-people were slow to give up. It was a valuable source of income turesto people of moderate means. Women could then do but few things to 376 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY make their time a source of revenue, besides spinning and weaving; and thegeneration of men and women of 1810 did not relinquish the householdmanufacture until they had passed off the scene of earthly toil and struggle.This household employment was also prized by public men, for the sake ofits influences upon the character of our people. Henry Clay, speaking of thelives of farmers and mechanics, said they tended to beget a peculiarly eager,disinterested love of truth, and exempted them in a good degree from thosesudden impulses to which those who move in the more excitable walks of lifeare more freque

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