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Francis Cabot Lowell (April 7, 1775 – August 10, 1817) was an American businessman for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, is named. He was instrumental in bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States.
Francis Cabot Lowell was an American businessman, a member of the gifted Lowell family of Massachusetts and the principal founder of what is said to have been the world’s first textile mill in which all operations converting raw cotton into finished cloth were performed.
Jul 25, 2019 · Enter Francis Cabot Lowell (1775 to 1817), a Boston-based merchant who specialized in the international trade of textiles and other goods. Lowell had seen firsthand how international conflict jeopardized the American economy with its dependence on foreign goods.
In just six years, Francis Cabot Lowell built up an American textile manufacturing industry. He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1775, and became a successful merchant. On a...
September-October 2010. Few individuals have influenced economic history as did Francis Cabot Lowell, A.B. 1793. Born as American colonists struggled for political independence, he helped lay the groundwork for the new country’s economic independence with his idea for an integrated textile mill.
May 29, 2018 · Francis Cabot Lowell (1775 – 1817) was a member of a large aristocratic New England family that came to dominate the business, political, and cultural life of Massachusetts. He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a year before the signing of the United States Constitution.
Jan 25, 2017 · The Lowell System was a labor production model invented by Francis Cabot Lowell in Massachusetts in the 19th century. The system was designed so that every step of the manufacturing process was done under one roof and the work was performed by young adult women instead of children or young men.
Dec 20, 2017 · Figures like Samuel Slater and, later, Francis Cabot Lowell, helped to create a domestic textile manufacturing industry that became the most important industry in America before the Civil War,...
Jun 15, 2018 · The success of the early spinning mills of southern New England in the years before 1810 and the uncertainties of shipping led the son of a leading Boston merchant family, Francis Cabot Lowell, to seek a haven for his fortune in manufacturing.
Francis Cabot Lowell was born into a wealthy family. In 1810, he and his family visited England, where he saw the smoothly operating Lancashire Textile Mills. He returned to Massachusetts to...
