Nathan Holden Daybook 1852-1887

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Nathan Holden Daybook 1852-1887

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Farmer from New Salem, Massachusetts, whose secondary occupation was that of a shoe repairman. Daybook documents a component of small-scale, handwork shoe production in a local economy prior to the arrival of centralized, mechanized manufacturing; lists Holden's shoemending skills and the method and form in which he was paid by customers, including cash, customers' labor, and services or wares such as butchering pigs or cows, chopping or gathering wood, travelling by buggy to a different town, using a neighbor's oxen, and a variety of food and tools.

1 volume

eng,

Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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Holden, Nathan, b. 1812

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Farmer from New Salem, Massachusetts, whose secondary occupation was that of a shoe repairman. From the description of Nathan Holden daybook, 1852-1887. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 52367017 ...

Holden, Nathan

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Born in 1812 in New Salem, Nathan Holden was the oldest son of Simon and Polly Holden and had eight siblings. He was raised in the Augustus Holden House (named after his grandfather) which was situated on Lover's Lane in North New Salem, mainly a lumbering community. Nathan married Harriet Stowell in 1836 when he was 23 years old. They had five children at the time they moved into the house that Nathan built near his parents on Lover's Lane during 1846 and 1847. Martha P...