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	Francis Cabot Lowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the son of John Lowell (1743-1802) and Susanna Cabot (1754-1777), and a member of the prominent Boston Lowell family, which included statesman John Lowell, Harvard University president Abbott Lawrence Lowell, civil war general Charles Russell Lowell, astronomer Percival Lowell, and poet Robert Lowell.
		Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1793, and on November 2, 1798 married Hannah Jackson in Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Jonathan Jackson and Hannah Tracy, with whom he had four children; three sons and one daughter.
		Lowell also pioneered the employment of women, and particularly young women from New England farming families, as factory workers, in what became known as the Lowell system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Cabot_Lowell (526 words)

	Francis Cabot Lowell Biography / Biography of Francis Cabot Lowell Biography
		Lowell died at the early age of 42, leaving a daughter and three sons, one of whom, Francis Cabot Lowell II, was to inherit his father's managerial abilities and a leading position in the expanding textile industry.
		Francis Cabot Lowell was born in Newburyport, Mass., the son of John Lowell, a prominent lawyer, and Susanna Cabot, the daughter of a wealthy family of merchant shippers.
		Lowell was an active lobbyist for the protective tariff and in 1816 was influential in achieving the first American tariff that acknowledged an "infant industries" principle and provided a substantial duty on foreign cotton goods.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-francis-cabot-lowell (513 words)

	Lowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Cabot Lowell, businessman and founder of Lowell, Massachusetts
		Lowell is the name of several places in the United States of America:
		Percival Lowell, astronomer and founder of Lowell Observatory
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lowell (138 words)

	Today in History: December 20
		The town of Lowell, Massachusetts was named after the inventor of the power loom, Francis Cabot Lowell.
		Among the famous from Lowell are the painter James McNeill Whistler and the literary icon Jack Kerouac.
		Lowell factories, well connected to Boston by canal and railroad, provided an early model for subsequent U.S. corporate and entrepreneurial organization.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec20.html (818 words)

	Lowell, Francis Cabot
		Lowell was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard.
		In 1822 the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, was established and named after him.
		With the cutoff of international trade during the Anglo-American War of 1812, Lowell established the Boston Manufacturing Company, a mechanized textile mill at Waltham, Massachusetts.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/L/Lowell/1.html (100 words)

	Lowell, Francis
		Lowell, Francis Cabot (1775-1817) Manufacturer: Francis Cabot Lowell was born on April 7, 1775, in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
		Lowell died on August 10, 1817, in Boston, Massachusetts.
		In 1826, the textile city of Lowell, Massachusetts was named after him.
	www.multied.com /Bio/nn/Lowell.html (191 words)

	The Lowell System: Lecture Transcript One
		Lowell was significant, not only because it was the leading site of textile production in the country, the center of the technological and industrial revolution in America, but because its labor force consisted overwhelmingly of women -- young, single women, tens of thousands employed in the mills throughout New England.
		The Merrimack River on which Lowell would be founded fell some 35 feet, a tremendous source of energy and power.
		And what he said was, "Twelve years ago it was a barren waste in which the silence was interrupted only by the noisy dashings of the clear waters of the Merrimack against the granite blocks that obstruct their course.
	www.learner.org /channel/workshops/primarysources/lowell/transcript01.html (826 words)

	Who Made America? Innovators Francis Cabot Lowell
		Another of Lowell's innovations was in hiring young farm girls to work in the mill.
		In 1822, Lowell's partners named a new mill town on the Merrimack River, Lowell, after their visionary leader.
		Like Samuel Slater before him, Lowell was inspired to create his own manufacturing enterprise in the United States.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/lowell_hi.html (375 words)

	Waltham and the Industrial Revolution
		In 1813 Francis Cabot Lowell, scion of a prominent Boston merchant family, journeyed to England to inspect the world's greatest industrial operations.
		The landscape has changed considerably since Francis Cabot Lowell built America's first factory here in 1814, but were he ever to revisit Waltham, he would surely feel right at home.
		Lowell conceived of a new way of manufacturing textiles in America: hundreds of power looms, connected by water-powered line shafts and belts, operated by young women of upstanding Yankee stock.
	www.crmi.org /history.htm (409 words)

	Focus on Lowell
		Lowell's Pollard Memorial Library is part of the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, a network of public libraries serving communities throughout the Merrimack Valley.
		Lowell is a member of the Lowell Regional Transit Authority (LRTA), which provides bus service between Lowell and the neighboring towns of Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Tewksbury, and Tyngsborough.
		Lowell is also served by two public charter schools: the Lowell Community Charter Public School and the Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School.
	www.mvcouncil.com /communities/lowell.html (436 words)

	Lowell
		Francis Cabot Lowell - Lowell, Francis Cabot, 1775–1817, pioneer American cotton manufacturer, b.
		A campus of the Univ. of Massachusetts is in Lowell.
		Amy Lowell - Lowell, Amy, 1874–1925, American poet, biographer, and critic, b.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0830479.html (202 words)

	Lowell Web Site
		Francis Cabot Lowell managed to absorb enough information concerning the construction of the English power loom when on a visit in 1810 that he could reconstruct the technology in his plant in Waltham, Massachusetts.
		Lowell’s history is inextricably linked to the industrialization of textile manufacture that began in England as a jealously guarded secret.
		The firm soon relocated to the junction of the Merrimack and Concord Rivers and Pawtucket Canal, and the city was renamed Lowell, after the founder of the American technology.
	holycross.edu /departments/visarts/vraguin/projects/lowell/lowell.htm (290 words)

	UMass Lowell Francis Cabot Lowell Alumni Awards
		The Francis Cabot Lowell Alumni Awards and the Francis Cabot Lowell Alumni Award for Recent Graduates recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements of our alumni each year.
		Each year nominations will be accepted to honor alumni who have translated their UMass Lowell education into distinguished service for the Francis Cabot Lowell Alumni Award for:
		Lowell, Lowell Technological Institute, Massachusetts State College at Lowell, Lowell State College or University of Lowell.
	www.uml.edu /advancement/alumni/francis_cabot (334 words)

	SINCE INVENTING THE VERY FIR FRANCIS CABOT LOWELLT WOOD-PRESERVING SHINGLE STAIN IN 1877,
		Francis Marion University University Attorney (06-09) (Salary: Depending upon qualifications and experience) Position to be filled no later than January 2006 Serve as the primary attorney for Francis Marion, directing the legal activities of the Univ...
		Francis is seen on countless birdbaths with cute tweetie birds, dressed in something that looks more like a shapeless bathrobe than our religious habit and his dewey-eyed image is mass-produced on countless holy cards.
		Lowell Crossing is part of the Danvers/Peabody Residential Program, a network of community-based residential services for adults, including two eight-bed group homes and a variety of supported apartments.
	franciscabotlowell.mesalowell.com (2201 words)

	Lowell, Vermont, New England, USA
		However, that town had been named Lowell only five years before the Vermont towns' name change (long after the settlers arrived), honoring Francis Cabot Lowell, the initiator of large-scale cotton textile manufacturing in the US.
		In 1781, Lowell and some associates had petitioned Vermont for a grant in the area of present-day Morgan and Charleston.
		Some say that the new name derived from Lowell, Massachusetts, because many of the people who settled in Kellyvale had come from that area.
	www.virtualvermont.com /towns/lowell.html (450 words)

	Francis Cabot Lowell (from Lowell family) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The son of Judge John Lowell, Francis Cabot Lowell was born in Newburyport, Mass., on April 7, 1775.
		A prominent and gifted Massachusetts family, the Lowells included, among others, the founder of the first textile mill in the United States, Francis Cabot Lowell; a major literary figure, James Russell Lowell; an astronomer and founder of the Lowell Observatory, Percival Lowell; one of Harvard University's most significant presidents, Abbott Lawrence Lowell; and two...
		American businessman, a member of the gifted Lowell family of Massachusetts and the principal founder of what is said to have been the world's first textile mill in which were performed all operations converting raw cotton into finished cloth.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-204084 (622 words)

	industry
		In that year, Francis Cabot Lowell founded the Boston Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill in Waltham which was the first modern factory in the United States and the first time that all the processes for making cloth from cotton occurred under one roof while using power looms.
		Forty years later the Waltham Watch Company was started in Waltham by Aaron Dennison, a man whose dream was to make watches with interchangeable parts, the parts being precision made, automatically by machines to the closest of tolerances.
		Also to the countless contributions made by Waltham industries in the early manufacturing of aluminum, mica, rivets, lathes, screws, instruments, steam cars, gasoline cars, buckles and those far too numerous and significant contributions made by many Waltham industries today, especially in the electronics field along Route 128.
	www.walthammuseum.com /industry.htm (1074 words)

	MHS Patrick Tracy Jackson Papers, 1766-1869 : Guide to the Collection
		Estate papers include five volumes in cases and folders and one loose document relating to the estate of Francis Cabot Lowell, a trust for Louisa Higginson and her children, and the estate of Gardiner Greene.
		Francis Cabot Lowell died 10 Aug. 1817 and split his estate equally among his four children: John Lowell, Jr., Susan Cabot Lowell, Francis Cabot Lowell, Jr., and Edward Jackson Lowell.
		Francis Cabot Lowell's estate papers include an inventory, accounts, and guardian accounts.
	www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0037 (2026 words)

	Francis Cabot Lowell and the power loom
		By virtue of his specialized legal services, John Lowell "Esquire" was one of America's financially most successful lawyers ever, as well as the founder of one of Boston's most respected families.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/early_industrialists/lowell_textile_mills1.asp (112 words)

	No. 159: Lowell, Massachusetts
		So in 1810 the New England trader Francis Cabot Lowell decided to create an American textile industry.
		By 1836 twenty textile mills in Lowell were producing fifty million yards of cloth a year.
		In the 1840s they began replacing these water wheels with the new Francis water turbines, and the factories kept on expanding.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi159.htm (492 words)

	Francis Cabot Lowell
		Lowell, Francis Cabot, 1775–1817, pioneer American cotton manufacturer, b.
		Lowell, Mass., founded after his death, was named for him.
		John Lowell, American jurist - Lowell, John, 1743–1802, American jurist, b.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0830473.html (222 words)

	lowell
		Francis tested it and was impressed and 1849 he had the Lowell companies purchase the patent
		Lowell toured England and studied the textile factories, memorizing the machines.
		Lowell also had a machine shop that first built the machines for the factories but also became an important early builder of locomotives for the railway
	www.clemson.edu /caah/history/FacultyPages/PamMack/lec323/lowell.htm (759 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Lowell
		Lowell, Joshua Adams (1801-1874) — of East Machias,
		Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) — Born in Cambridge,
		Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1878-84.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/lowell.html (409 words)

	Percival Lowell
		Percival Lowell (1855-1916), astronomer and founder of the Lowell Observatory.
		Percival Lowell, Choson, the Land of the Morning Calm - A Sketch of Korea (Boston, 1886), in Percival Lowell, Collected Writings on the Far East, vol.
		Lowell Photographic Collection on Korea, BandW Pictures on 5x8 glass negatives (Lowell Observatory) (type "Korea" in the subject form and hit search)
	www.gkn-la.net /history_resources/percival_lowell.htm (302 words)

	Prentice Hall School Massachusetts Social Studies
		A Boston merchant by the name of Francis Cabot Lowell toured several British textile mills in the early 1800s.
		In 1821, Lowell, Massachusetts, was a tiny village with only five farm families.
		One visitor described Lowell this way: "There are huge factories, five, six, or seven stories high, each capped with a little white belfry.
	www.phschool.com /social_studies/ma_mill_life_lowell.html (794 words)

	Biographies of the Industrial RevolutionBiographies of the Biographies of the Industrial Revolution
		Lowell, Francis Cabot: (1) Francis Cabot Lowell Mill Site from the Charles River Museum of Industry, (2) Francis Cabot Lowell and the Power Loom, (3) Francis Cabot Lowell, (4) Francis Cabot Lowell
	www.42explore2.com /industrial2.htm (688 words)

	Freedom: A History of US. Webisode 4: Wake up, America. Segment 4 PBS
		Bostonian Francis Cabot Lowell built textile mills that were even better than those in England.
		Thanks to men like Eli Whitney and Sam Slater, the factory system had come to America.
		Factory goods cost much less than handmade goods.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/historyofus/web04/segment4.html (252 words)

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	Francis Cabot Lowell Mill - Real Estate - Waltham, MA, 02453-5384 - Citysearch
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