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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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s, and was admitted a free-man in 1678. Freegrace. his son, was born about 1690, and his marriageto Mary Sibley was the first in Sutton. He was one of the original pro-prietors of the town, a brick mason, and helped to build the old StateHouse in Boston. Malachi, son of Freegrace, and great-grandfather ofEdwin T. Marble, was born in Sutton, where he became prominent. Heenlisted April 11, 1759, in Colonel John Chandlers regiment, and during theFrench War was also in Captain Samuel Clark Powers company, Brigadier-General Ruggles regiment. During the Revolution he was collector oftaxes for Sutton. Andrew, grandfather of Edwin Tyler, was the oldest sonof Malachi, and was born in Sutton in 1761. He was a mail-carrier betweenBoston and Hartford. Royal Tyler, father of Edwin Tyler, was fourthchild of Andrew, born in Sutton in 1797. He built up a reputationthroughout the country for his ability to raise prize stock, and he wasmuch interested in the Worcester County Agricultural Society in its
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C^2^^^^^^ X^^^^^^^J OF THE UNITED STATES 311 early days. He was commissioned lieutenant of the 5th regiment, Sept.20, 1826, and was captain of the Sutton rifles in 1830 and 1831. flemarried Ann Bailey Clement, of Worcester, Sept. 27, 1825, she being adaughter of Moses and Sarah (Bailey) Clement, a descendant of oldEssex County families. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of hisnative town, and also at the Worcester County Manual Training School,that being the old name of the Worcester Academy, having removed toWorcester with his parents in 1841. At the age of eighteen he enteredthe machine- shop of Albert Curtis, where he served an apprenticeship ofthree years. He then worked in various machine shops in the city ofWorcester as a journeyman, foreman and superintendent; for some timehe was in the employ of A. & S. Thayer, and afterwards was foreman forThayer, Houghton & Co., manufacturers of machinists tools. Later he wassuperintendeint for E. C. Cleve

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