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Amos D. Lockwood

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455: 493: 98: 550: 30: 474: 436: 531: 512: 454: 613:. He married Sarah Deming Lockwood, his daughter, in 1858. He was appointed managing agent in 1860 when Lockwood moved to Lewiston. When Lockwood returned to Providence, Danielson followed to be his partner. After retiring from Lockwood, Greene & Company in 1889 he held several official positions in manufacturing companies. He died January 1, 1913 in Providence. 192:
Lockwood's first project in Lewiston was the organization and construction of the Androscoggin Mill, begun in 1860. This was followed by the Lewiston Mill in the same year. In 1861 he built Hill Mill No. 6 and supervised the reconstruction of the main dam of the Franklin Company. In 1864 he was among
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joined the firm. In 1882, Lockwood, Davidson and Greene established a new partnership. Lockwood, Greene & Company was formed March 1, 1882, with offices in Providence. They continued in practice together until Lockwood's death, which occurred January 16, 1884, in Providence.
587:, where he would later teach. He was principal of the school from 1835 to 1838. From 1838 to 1843 he worked in his father's civil engineering firm. When the original A. D. Lockwood & Company was formed, Moses B. managed the firm's business office in Providence. When the 205:
and others, as well as maintaining his role as senior partner of A. D. Lockwood & Company. In 1871 Lockwood established an independent office in Boston for the practice of mechanical engineering. However, the death of his brother and partner in May and the
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in November 1872, which destroyed his office and records, led him to return to Providence in 1873, though he would keep his engineering office in Boston for another two years. Though Lockwood now dealt directly with the management of the
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of Providence. The present Chapel Hall was given in memory of Amos DeForest Lockwood and his wife, Sarah Fuller Lockwood by their children and grandchildren in 1892. He was twice president of the Rhode Island Congregational Club.
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At the time of his birth, Lockwood's father was a sea captain, but when he was six the family moved to Providence where Benoni Lockwood took up surveying and civil engineering. At the age of sixteen, the younger Lockwood moved to
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to work in the store of the Orleans Manufacturing Company, owned by David Wilkinson and Benjamin Peck. After two years he began working as an operative in the Orleans mill, where he remained for another two years.
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the purchasers from Thomas J. Hill of the Lewiston Foundry, which they reorganized as the Lewiston Machine Company. Before 1871 Lockwood was consulting engineer to the companies at Lewiston, the Pepperell Mills in
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and Wauregan Mills were established, Moses B. was appointed treasurer of each. He continued in that role at Wauregan only until 1858, but was treasurer at Quinebaug until his death, which occurred May 13, 1872 in
189:, and in 1860 was also appointed resident agent. Lockwood's predecessor at Lewiston was the noted "mill doctor" David Whitman (1799-1858), who had begun a mill machinery repair service in 1832. 290: 549: 606: 588: 212: 170: 936: 676: 530: 435: 941: 473: 511: 517: 372: 247: 926: 758: 97: 931: 479: 352: 228: 29: 126: 165:
In 1832 he was appointed assistant superintendent of the mills of Almy, Brown & Slater, later S. & J. Slater, in
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New England Manufacturers and Manufactories: Three Hundred and Fifty of the Leading Manufacturers of New England, Vol I
216: 215:, he did not end his engineering work. In 1873 he directed the reconstruction of the Otis Company's Palmer mills at 540: 400: 393: 198: 166: 559: 410: 207: 521: 502: 441: 417: 376: 366: 333: 258: 251: 243: 118: 75: 125:, and gradually expanded his scope to all areas of textile mill construction. He was a cofounder, in 1882, of 311: 298: 182: 178: 158: 602: 555: 464: 406: 383: 343: 224: 142: 57: 892: 610: 271: 174: 185:, and in 1858 was appointed mechanical engineer of the Franklin Company and associated enterprises at 921: 916: 278:, and in 1878 he was elected president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, now the 202: 896: 498: 362: 239: 146: 122: 751:
Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic
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Moses Brown Lockwood was born August 25, 1815 in Pawtuxet. He was educated at what is now the
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In 1876 Lockwood was appointed one of the American judges of textiles at the
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Lockwood's first work in the South came in 1875, when he built the
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Lockwood Greene: The History of an Engineering Business, 1832-1958
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The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island
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Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1913-1914
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Lewiston Bleachery and Dye Works, Lewiston, Maine (1870)
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Slatersville Historic District NRHP Registration Form
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In 1874 he organized and built the 7: 942:19th-century American businesspeople 736:A History of Rehoboth, Massachusetts 656: 654: 753:. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 109. 336:, Lewiston, Maine (1866, NRHP 1979) 14: 665:. Boston: Van Slyck. p. 407. 219:, as well as improvements to the 889:Dictionary of Canadian Biography 548: 529: 510: 491: 472: 453: 434: 96: 369:(1875, NRHP 1978, burned 1983) 127:Lockwood, Greene & Company 1: 927:American mechanical engineers 291:Central Congregational Church 823:"John Weaver Danielson," in 461:Boston Manufacturing Company 340:Boston Manufacturing Company 280:National Textile Association 221:Boston Manufacturing Company 109:(1811–1884) was an American 34:Amos D. Lockwood, circa 1879 121:. He was self-trained as a 958: 541:Charleston, South Carolina 403:(1881–82, demolished 1972) 401:St. Stephen, New Brunswick 394:Charleston, South Carolina 301:. They had four children. 133:in the twentieth century. 883:Young, D. Murray (2003). 661:D, Van Slyck, J. 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Pawtuxet, Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island

manufacturer
engineer
Providence, Rhode Island
mechanical engineer
Lockwood, Greene & Company
United States
Pawtuxet, Rhode Island
Benoni Lockwood III
Roger Williams
Rehoboth
Slatersville
Quinebaug Mills
Brooklyn, Connecticut
Plainfield, Connecticut
Lawrence
Lewiston, Maine
Biddeford
Newburyport
Salem
Great Boston Fire
Quinebaug Mills
Three Rivers
Boston Manufacturing Company
Waltham
Lockwood Mills
Waterville, Maine

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