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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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OF THE UNITED STATES 395 interest in the whaler for a fair profit, after holding it over one year,and in i860 he went to Boston, where he had neither friends nor in-fluence and found employment in the leather store of Johnson & Thompsonas clerk, remaining with the firm until he was twenty-four years old anduntil he had gained a practical knowledge of the leather business. Hethen formed a partnership with Charles B. Bryant, and the leather firm ofBryant & King prospered up to the time of the great fire of 1872, whenthey lost their property in Boston by fire. Later their factories at Clinton,Mass., were destroyed by flood, in 1876, and the firm suspended, payingtheir creditors seventy cents on the dollar. Six years later the firm volun-tarily paid every creditor the entire balance of their claims with interestat six per cent. The disaster did not deter the firm, and they continuedthe business up to 1887, when it was transferred to a company. Mr. Kingengaged in new business ventu

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