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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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,Dec. 14, 1844; son of Theophilus and Mary (E.) King. His ma-ternal Pilgrim ancestors, from whom he was of the eighth generation,were John Howland and Elizabeth Tillery, both passengers of the May-flower, 1620, who were married in Plymouth Colony, the first marriageceremony performed by the Pilgrims on American soil. John Howlandwas the last survivor, living in Plymouth, of the historic band that foundedthe colony in 1620. Theophilus King attended the public school and academy at Rochester,and his first experience in business was gained on his fathers farm andin his store in Rochester. He also had experience as post-office clerk, in-surance clerk and assistant town-clerk, as well as assisting in looking aftera saw mill, in all of which enterprises his father was the head. He beganto trade in furs and to raise potatoes on his own account when thirteenyears old, and when he was fifteen he owned a sixty-fourth part of thewhaler Admiral Blake, paid for out of his own earnings. He sold his
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