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Knitters of Needham
In the 19th century, knitters from the Midlands of England, made poor by the increasing flow of work into factories, brought their craft to America. Many of them settled in Highlandville, a village ofNeedham. Working out of their homes, they knitted socks, mittens, gloves, underwear, and jackets, using hand- and foot-operated frame machines they brought from England. The more enterprising of them, like William Carter, John Moseley, and Joseph Thorpe, built large mills using steam-powered machinery. The knitters carried the quiet farming town of Needham into the industrial age, attracting hundreds of immigrants to work in their mills. With a strong sense of civic responsibility, the knitters helped build schools, churches, town libraries, parks, and even a cricket field. Early in the 20th century, faced with stiff competition from abroad, the knitters of Needham followed the general trend of the textile industry by consolidating and moving production to the South.
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A Tree Grows in Kansas
William Avery (1622-1686) immigrated in 1650 from England to Dedham, Massachusetts and married Margaret Allright. George Avery (b.1789), a direct descendant in the fifth generation, married Delilah Cummings, and moved from New Hampshire to land near Clay Center, Kansas. Actually they did not move until 1873, and then followed their children who were already established. Descendants and rela- tives lived in New England, Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, Wyoming, California and elsewhere. Includes some generations of ancestors in England to the early 1500s.
