[Business records]. 1793-1954.

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[Business records]. 1793-1954.

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Contains minutes, 1845-1942, of the Board of Directors; stock records, 1847-1889; incoming correspondence, 1845-1897, to various company officials, including Charles S. Storrow, Charles H. Bigelow, C.M. Marvel, John R. Rollins, John Morse and others; correspondence to the treasurer, 1861-1926; correspondence to engineers, 1854-1922, and from engineers, 1860-1939. Also contains scrapbooks of clippings, 1889-1946; financial records, 1845-1887; purchasing records, 1846-1857; surveys of land, 1844-1915; papers on land sales, 1846-1889; records of land given to the city, 1846-1853; rents and leases on houses and land, 1845-1889; and papers about streets, sewers and drains, 1846-1953. Also includes files on construction of dams, canals, and fishways, 1836-1857; labor records, with payrolls, 1847-1905, letters of application, 1845-1846, etc.; reports on water power, water-wheel and turbine tests, water measurements in Lawrence rivers and canals, and reports, 1870-1905, of experiments and observations at the experimental penstock and pipe set up by Hiram F. Mills on the Lawrence canals. Private papers of engineers include those of Hiram F. Mills, Richard A. Hale and others. Papers of subsidiaries such as the lumber yard, the Lawrence Machine Shop, and the Andover Bridge, in which the Essex Co. purchased a majority interest in 1846, are included. Also contains some records of the Winnepissiogee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Co., 1845-1889, Lawrence Reservoir Association papers, 1853-1877, and papers of Robert H. Tewksbury, clerk of the Essex Co. from ca. 1870 to 1910. Collection includes extensive holdings of drawings, plans and photographs.

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Bartlett, Edward L.

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Bartlett served as Adjutant General of the Territory of New Mexico under Governor Sheldon and Governor Ross from 1883-1889. He served as Solicitor General of the Territory of New Mexico from 1889-1895 and 1897-1904. He also served as chairman of the Santa Fe Council, member of the Santa Fe Board of Education and was twice as president of the Santa Fe Board of Trade. He founded the New Mexico Bar Association and was prominent in Republican Party politics serving as Chairman of the Territorial Rep...

Tewksbury, Robert H. (Robert Haskell), 1833-

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Lawrence, Samuel, 1801-1880

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Morse, John C. (Blacksmith)

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Blacksmith, of Haverhill, N.H. From the description of Accounts, 1822-1873. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70960840 Addressee was a printer. From the description of Letter, Charlestown, [Massachusetts], to William Butler, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1804 January 13. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122529583 ...

Saunders, Daniel, 1796-1872

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Rollins, John R. (John Rodman), 1817-1892

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Mayor, public official, soldier, school superindendent, and paymaster of the Essex Company, of Lawrence, Mass. From the description of John R. Rollins collection, 1851-1859. (Lawrence Public Library). WorldCat record id: 70955589 ...

Hale, Richard A.

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Lawrence Machine Shop.

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Mills, Hiram F. (Hiram Francis), 1836-1921

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Lawrence Reservoir Association.

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Winnepissiogee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company.

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Essex Company (Lawrence, Mass.)

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The company, located in Lawrence, Mass., was incorporated in 1845 to construct a dam across the Merrimack River with power canals to create water power for use in manufacturing. The original incorporators were Samuel Lawrence, John Nesmith, Daniel Saunders, and Edward Bartlett. The company purchased the rights to nearly 4,000 acres of land in Methuen and Andover, Mass. Construction of the dam and other industrial structures began in 1845 in what would become the city of Lawrence, Mass. Beginning...

Nesmith, John

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Marvel, C. M.

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Bigelow, Charles H.

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