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About Paul Whitin
Paul Whitin was an American blacksmith and pioneering industrialist who in 1826 in Northbridge, Massachusetts established P Whitin and Sons, a new cotton mill with his sons. This company would grow and acquire other mills in the area. In 1831 his son John C Whitin obtained a patent for a mechanized Cotton Picker. Textile machinery would become a larger percentage of their business over time. would later become the largest maker of specialty textile machinery in the world.
Everything about Paul Whitin →- Occupation
- blacksmith
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1767
- Died
- 1831