Английская Википедия:Ezra W. Taft
Ezra W. Taft (August 26, 1800 – February 8, 1885)[1] was a politician from Dedham, Massachusetts. He represented the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Norfolk district in the Great and General Court.[2][3]
Taft was born to Frederick and Abigail Wood Taft in Uxbridge, Massachusetts on August 26, 1800.Шаблон:Sfn Early in life he commenced that business activity which became characteristic of the man.Шаблон:Sfn He moved to Dedham in 1815 and went to work with Frederick A Taft who started the Dedham Manufacturing Company.Шаблон:Sfn He remained in Dedham until 1820.Шаблон:Sfn In that year, then only twenty years of age, he went to the neighboring town of Walpole where he hired a little mill and made forty thousand yards of negro cloth for the Southern trade.Шаблон:Sfn In 1823, he went to Dover, New Hampshire and assisted in starting the Cocheco Mill, one of the largest cotton mills in New England.Шаблон:Sfn He remained three years as overseer.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1826, he returned to Dedham and took the agency of the Dedham Manufacturing Company, a position he retained six years.Шаблон:Sfn In 1832, Taft severed his connection with this company and assumed the agency of the Norfolk Manufacturing Company at East Dedham where he built the stone mill still standing.Шаблон:Sfn He remained in this connection thirty years.Шаблон:Sfn At the time Taft first identified himself with the manufacturing business, all yarn was spun at the mills and sent out through the country to be woven.Шаблон:Sfn He lived to witness the development of the new woolen mill, described as one of the wonders of the nineteenth century.Шаблон:Sfn In 1864, Mr Taft retired from manufacturing and after that time devoted himself almost continuously to the business of the Town of Dedham.Шаблон:Sfn
For more thirty years he was a member of the school committee.Шаблон:Sfn For thirty one years he was a director of the Dedham Bank, including as president beginning in 1873.Шаблон:Sfn He was connected with the Dedham Institution for Savings since its organization and was on the investment committee.Шаблон:Sfn He was also a member of the Norfolk Insurance Company and a director in the Dedham Mutual Insurance Company.Шаблон:Sfn He was for fourteen successive years a Dedham selectmen, during twelve of which he was chairman of the board.Шаблон:Sfn He also represented Dedham for four years in the Legislature besides filling many other positions of honor and trust.Шаблон:Sfn It was said that no citizen of the town of Dedham had been so continuously connected with bank and town business as Taft.Шаблон:Sfn
Taft was a member of the Orthodox Church in Dedham and a Republican.Шаблон:Sfn On September 8, 1830, Taft married Lendamine Draper, the eldest daughter of Calvin Guild of Dedham.Шаблон:Sfn Their family consisted of six children.Шаблон:Sfn
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