biography
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Jackson, Patrick Tracy
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| male
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| lived:
| (1780–1847)
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| biography:
| Cotton manufacturer, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA. Originally a merchant sea captain (1799–1808), he joined Francis Cabot Lowell (his brother-in-law), Nathan Appleton, and others to organize the Boston Manufacturing Co in Waltham, MA (1813). He was influential in the founding of Lowell, MA (1820) and built the Boston & Lowell Railroad. |
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