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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
passed in the affirmative, and fifty dollars were granted under charge of a committee. In 1799 the standing committee divide the ground, and make one half the fence between the Burying Ground and Mr. Whittemore's estate. A card manufactory was set up in this Precinct by William Whittemore & Co. in 1799. Dr. Holmes, in his History of Cambridge (1801), speaking of a card factory which does great honor to American ingenuity, in the Northwest Parish of the town, says: On the first of September, 1799, William Whittemore and company commenced business. Twenty-three machines, now in operation, stick two hundred dozen pairs of cards, on an average, every week. Forty persons, male and female, employed in this manufactory, complete the above mentioned number weekly, for sale. The building in which the whole work is done is 46 feet square; and the, average price of the cards is 7 dollars per dozen pairs. The origin of this business was the invention of an ingenious machine for
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
ingenuity, and by a series of successive, independent operations, wonderful in the perfection of its performance, completed the card. Edward Everett could compare its performance with nothing more nearly than the mechanism of the human system. John Randolph, of Roanoke, said in Congress, in 1809, he would renew the patent to all eternity, for it is the only machine which ever had a soul! It was considered of great advantage to the cotton and wool-growing interest of the country, and on 1 Sept. 1799, a company styled the Whittemore Brothers (Amos, William and Samuel) commenced business in card factory in the Northwest Parish of Cambridge. Twenty-three machines were in operation and forty persons employed in this factory in 1801 (Holmes ). The machines numbered fifty-five in 1809 (Fiske ). The town of West Cambridge dates its prosperity from the establishment of this manufacture. See Wyman, 1028; Hist. Cutter Family, 231-2, 338-44, 374, 393-4; and Boston Daily Advertiser for 20 Ju