Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, Vol. 3

Download or read book Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, Vol. 3 written by Benjamin F. Arrington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, Vol. 3: A Classified Work, Devoted to the County's Remarkable Growth in All Lines of Human Endeavor; More Especially to Within a Period of Fifty Years James Cotter was born in County Cork, Ireland, February 23, 1862, and received his education in the National and in the Brothers' schools in Ireland. At the age of sixteen, he left school and until he was eighteen employed himself in doing odd jobs for his father. He then came to the United States, and learned the trade of lasting, this being in the old days of manufacturing shoes by hand, he being em ployed in the shoe factory of Cotter Harney, his uncle, John Cotter, being a member of the firm. As machinery was beginning to take the place of hand work at this period. Thus rendering idle' thou sands of those who had wrought in the old my, Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.