The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-12-22

The MASSACHUSETTS colony w ab u AloH'''l
I'm the Business of Making Apotwea'
rs Early as IO20--A City Renowne:
for Its Patriotism and Wealth.
The history of the city of Lynn and
that of its shoe industry are, chronoloE-
ically speaking, almost identical The
shoe industry originated in Lynn III
1885, two years before the terse inan-
date was promulgated by the general
court Nov. 10, 1857. "Saugust Is called
Lin"
Lynn was originally pretty large
town. Its bounds were cat Charlestown
line, Reading pond Ipswich river, Sa-
| lem and Nahant'
| A few men termed cordwlnders cord
wainers) in the Plymouth charter were
| sent over and laid the foundations OF
the shoe business.
Shoemaking has taken a front rank
among the useful arts. The pilgrim ia
| theirs recognized this, and on the third
voyage of the Mayfower the governor
and deputy of the New England com
pany sent over (1699) Thomas Beard and
"Isack" Hickman, who were to receive
"their dyett and houseroom at the
charge of the companie." Hickman
went back. Thomas Beard remained
| He was the first shoemaker in New Eng
land.
The first white men known to have
settled in Lynn 1920 were Edmund In
gals, brewer, and his brother, Francis
| ingalls,, tanner. There was plenty of
raw material Cattle had been intro
duced by Edward Winslow Q624, and
there were over 200 head, "besides
horses, sheep and goats" brought over
in the next six yea 8, There were deer
and moose in plenty, and indeed buck
skin was the principal wear OF the early
colonists. Francis Ingalls, built his tan
merry on what is now Burrill street, on
"Humfry's brook" now part of
Swampscott.
This no doubt gave an impetus to the
shoe industry. The Burrill tannery was
established in 1880, and stood for almost
200 years, The Burrills were called the
Royal family of Lynn" John Burrill
was for twenty-one years member and
|
sentatives of Massachusetts.
The first Lynn shoemaker was Philip
Kertland Little is known of him
save that he came here from Bucking-
hamshire, England, in 1886, and made
shoes for Boston, Salem and Lynn peo-
pie.
Thence commenced the remarkable
growth. In 1913 we find the first iron
works in America established in the
town, These industries thrived until
| 1850. About that time an artistic
shoemaker from London came to town
and another impulse was given the IN
dustry. This man became famous.
Lynn made good record in thu
Revolution. Meetings We're called IL
1878, and the tea" and other taxes de
nounced. A company Of women, emu
lating the Boston Tea party, went t.
the shops and destroyed all the tea IL
the town John Mansfield and Eben
eyer Burrill, representing tho shoe ant
leather trade at that time, were mem
bers of provincial congress which con
vened at Salem in 1774 to choose
committee of safety" -Four Lynn mel
fell at Bunker Hill The trade revive'
n after this war. though there was bu
little money.
As early as 1888 Lynn asked that
protective tariff be imposed. 1t was a
rs this time that Ebenezer Breed, a nativ
of the town. used his wealth and his il
e fluence to improve the trade, After hil
came the johnson family, which accom-
n plished much toward the building up {
the town. Then came the Breed famil,
hardly less well known.
From 1900 to 1910 West Lynn, und,
the inspiration of Ebenezer Breed, soc
became manufacturing mart, probab
the most flourishing of any in the stat
:, Farming became of secondary impo
lance. Large factories were built II
famous Salem and Boston turnpike W
20 then completed CS00 and an imposii
nd hotel constructed The population
ho Lynn increased at this period more thi
:. ever before-from 1887 in 1900 to 40
-, in 1910,
'" Ebenezer's son, Isaiah, inherited t
spirit of his father. He was progressi
O and above all philanthropic.
At the time when schools We're II
led and education difficult to obtain
built a school house onto his home, a
for thirty years maintained, at lai
. expense, the best school in town.
Workmen's mutual benefit" assoc
tons were organized in 1914, and in
4. same year we find the Lynn Mechan
W. bank incorporated with capital
$4,000.
In 1882 the first directory of Lynn
published In it was a list of shoe IN
l0T ufacturers. There were sixty.
WI morocco manufacturers there were
and in footnote it is stated that "tl
yearly business amounts to a little N
than 100000
A few years later Mr.. John b. AL
long leading citizen of the town,
,llc gan the manufacture of shoes, establ
''i'' ing house which was afterward
spected throughout the country.
Eastern railroad extended a branc
the city in 1888.
,ae The wholesale shoe trade had nov
We. creased in proportion, and, as Nigh
expected, did much for the trad
general.
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