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    William Ballard Lenoir (1775–1852), mill-owner and Tennessee politician, he used both paid and forced labor in his mills. Francis Lieber (1800–1872), German-American...
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    Massachusetts. He rose from a humble childhood to become the wealthiest mill owner in Dedham. With his wife, Elizabeth (née Bosworth), he had two sons and...
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    Mill Owner's Building, also known as Mill Owner's Association or Ahmedabad Textile Mills Association (ATMA), is a modern architecture building in Ahmedabad...
    5 KB (463 words) - 18:30, 11 May 2024
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    weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials. The Luddite movement began in Nottingham, England...
    32 KB (3,628 words) - 10:28, 6 May 2024
  • customs, especially after meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton mill owners who at first seem to despise their social inferiors. The story explores...
    20 KB (2,421 words) - 23:07, 5 February 2024
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    manufacturer Matthew Mitchell and started work at 14 years of age in his father's mill. In 1841 he joined William Fison and Co and seven years later moved to A&S...
    2 KB (214 words) - 00:06, 10 April 2022
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    the city. Following the blast, Cadwallader C. Washburn, the mill's owner, had a new mill, designed by William de la Barre, constructed on the site of...
    12 KB (1,293 words) - 09:22, 22 January 2024
  • a New Zealand assisted immigrant, domestic servant, farmer and flour mill owner. She was born in Newmains, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1844. She emigrated...
    784 bytes (68 words) - 03:53, 22 February 2024
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    The assassination of Thomas Ashton, a British industrialist and mill-owner, took place at around 7:00 p.m. on 3 January 1831. Ashton was shot dead by striking...
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  • and paralyzed mother Gayatri. Before a job interview, he saves textile mill owner Laxminarayan Jetley who offers him job in his factory run by his ambitious...
    7 KB (730 words) - 20:37, 27 April 2024
  • and John Dwight. They operated the mill "in a rather stormy partnership" until 1649 when Whiting became the sole owner. The Town was displeased with the...
    16 KB (1,895 words) - 10:54, 26 April 2023
  • a luxury Italian clothing brand founded in 1975 by Paolo Dini, son of mill owner Gian Ludovico Dini. It has 280 stores worldwide and is headquartered in...
    4 KB (261 words) - 10:48, 8 May 2024
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    protagonist from southern England to show and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrialising city. The novel is set in the fictional...
    58 KB (7,915 words) - 20:50, 12 February 2024
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    the massacre or the mill where it occurred, the mill's owner used the spelling "Hawn" in legal documents. Hawn's Mill was a mill established on the banks...
    22 KB (2,592 words) - 12:03, 4 May 2024
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    possessing trees marked with the broad arrow, a New Hampshire mill owner leading other mill owners and townsmen assaulted the sheriff and his deputy sent to...
    15 KB (1,711 words) - 05:48, 7 May 2024
  • George Wheler (September 2, 1836 – July 6, 1908) was a mill owner and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Ontario North from 1878 to 1882...
    2 KB (138 words) - 19:44, 31 March 2024
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    Sierra Nevada in California. It was named after its owner John Sutter. A worker constructing the mill, James W. Marshall, found gold there in 1848. This...
    14 KB (1,511 words) - 22:43, 24 January 2024
  • the mill and fighting for his retirement dues from the mill which is on the verge of closing down. The mill is managed by the son-in-law of the owner Mr...
    11 KB (1,330 words) - 11:20, 2 April 2024
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    in 1904 but the River Bollin continued to power the mill through two water turbines. The mill owners bought a Boulton and Watt steam engine in 1810 and...
    33 KB (3,563 words) - 14:09, 16 March 2024
  • the mill owner's relatives, and Maari soon gets fired. When Maari returns the next day to apologise and get his job back, Perumal, the mill owner, and...
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