AMERICAN VOICE Francis Cabot Lowell
1775-1817
Lucy Larcom
1824-1893
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American Industrial Prancis Cabot Lowe
helped launch the American Industrial
Revolution with a new kind of textile mil Writer
Lucy Laroom shared her experience working
as a millor ha textile factory of that era
Francis Cabot Lowell, bom A7, 1775,
Newbury, Massachusetts, notion
American cotton tatve production in 1810
he traveled to Bootland to shy Bettish textile
Industries and returned to Massachusetts with
exciting new ideas. He founded the Boston
Manufacturing Company and, with the inventor
Paul Moody created an emicient power loom
anding machine. Lowell company built
the world's first integrated textile mil, which
transformed raw cotton into finished fabriellin
one buting
Lowel died August 10, 1817, but his legacy
continued Between 1814 and 1850, many textile
mits were built throughout New England. The mis
Lowell built in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts,
brought the community such prosperity that the
citas renamed their town Lowell in his honor
By the mid-19th century, the New England textile
industry employed 85,000 people. Many oris and
young women had left farms and families to work in
these mills for a chance at a better life.
One of the way to
Marcel Mare
father died when she was and they
redancially. They moved to Low where
the toe daughter in the
school at 11 and joined the stars as a worker
where wages for female workers were typically
$3.00 3.50 per week. And witter, Lam
Denned poems and stories the tree
They were published in The Operatives Maganna
magazine published by female machine operator
Alter 10 years, Larcome the wind began
teaching English literature. She continued with
and publishing poetry, and in 1880. Dushed the
book for which she is best known A New England
Githood, describing her as a miwoher. The
book remain in print today. She died April 17, 1893
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