[Papers]. 1854-1855.
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Rogers, John, 1829-1904
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John Rogers (1829-1904) was born in Salem, Mass., and received his education in the Boston public schools. While employed in various jobs he began to model in clay during his leisure hours and in 1858-1859 spent time in Rome studying methods of reproducing clay groups in plaster form. On his return, he went to Chicago where he exhibited, for a charity fair, "The Checker Players," a group in clay that attracted much favorable attention. During the Civil War, he modeled small statuette groups, mos...
Amoskeag manufacturing company
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Amoskeag was founded in 1825 by Samuel Slater and others, with mills in Manchester, New Hampshire, and corporate headquarters in Boston, Mass. It was incorporated in 1831 and became one of the largest producers of cotton cloth in the world. It closed in bankruptcy in 1935, and its assets were taken over by Amoskeag Industries, formed by a group of Manchester citizens and businesses to act as a holding company and real estate broker for the bankrupt manufacturer. From the description ...
