biography
| name: |
Lowell, Francis Cabot
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1775–1817)
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| biography:
| Textile manufacturer, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA. He worked in the import-export trade and observed textile machinery in Lancashire while on a visit to England (1810–12). On his return, with the assistance of his brother-in-law Patrick Tracy Jackson, Paul Moody, and Nathan Appleton, he started the Boston Manufacturing Co (1813) in Waltham, MA, the first mill to combine all the operations of making finished cloth from raw cotton. He died prematurely, and his partners named their new factory town, Lowell, MA, after him. |
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