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Identifier: historyofworcest03nuttc (find matches)
Title: History of Worcester and its people
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Nutt, Charles, 1868-1918
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- History Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed his education inthe public schools of his native town and graduated from the high school. Fromearly boyhood he was trained to habits of industry, spending his spare hours in the ■axe factory, of which his father was superintendent, and working there during schoolvacations. For two years after he left school he was employed as a mechanic inthe works. Though he was a good machinist and, accordine to the standards ofthat time, he had before him a promising opportunity for advancement, he thoughtthat trade and business was more attractive as aiT occupation, and at the age ofeighteen he went to w^ork as clerk in the general store at East Douglas. .After twoyears in this position, he became a salesman in the drv goods store of Horace Sheldon& Company in Worcester. His experience in mercantile life in these humble positionsgave him the early training in salesmanship that was of inestimable value to himand his employers in later years; and that early training under his father in East
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^- cJt cy>A^^>^ a-i^^^ AND ITS PEOPLE 43 Douglas was equally valuable in preparing him for the position he filled in laterjears. Another chapter in his life was devoted to manufacturing, and there again headded to his knowledge of business. In 1874 he began to manufacture tape, webbingand other narrow fabrics in Worcester under the firm name of C. H. Hutchiiis &Company. He occupied one floor of the building on Allen court, then occupied inpart also by L. J. Knowles & Brothers, loom manufacturers. Afterward this businesswas incorporated as the Hutchins Narrow Fabric Company. Mr. Hutchins alsomanufactured woolen goods. His business prospered and he had become fixed inhis determination to continue in that line of business, devoting his ability and energyto selling his products, superintending his factory and extending his business. When L. J. Knowles died in 1884. Francis B. Knowles felt the loss keenly. Thesudden parting by death of the business partners and brothers, betw

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