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American Manufarfures

FROM

1608 TO 1860:

EXHIBITING

THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE PRINCIPAL MECHANIC ARTS AND
MANUFACTURES, FROM THE EARLIEST COLONIAL PERIOD

TO THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION;

AND COMPRISING

ANNALS OF THE INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES IN MACHINERY,

MANUFACTURES AND USEFUL ARTS,

WITH A NOTICE OF

The Important Inventions, Tariffs, and the Results of each Decennial Census.

By J. LEANDER BISHOP, A.M., M.D.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

STATISTICS OF THE PRINCIPAL MANUFACTURING CENTRES, AND DESCRIPTIONS

OF REMARKABLE MANUFACTORIES AT THE PRESENT TIME.

IN TWO VOLUMES:

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:
EDWARD YOUNG & CO.,

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

EDWARD YOUNG & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District

of Pennsylvania.

8. A. GEORGE, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER,

607 SANSON STREET, PHILADELPHIA.

TO

JAMES M. BEEBE, ESQ.,

OF BOSTON.

DEAR SIR: This work, begun amidst the calm and plenty of Peace, is finished when “all the noisy trades of War wake the peaceful morn." It is finished by others, during my absence while serving as Regimental Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac. In August, 1862, I deemed it my duty to tender my services to the Government, then needing assistance in its Medical Department, and they being accepted, this work was entrusted to my friend, EDWIN T. FREEDLEY, of Philadelphia, who had furnished the capital necessary to carry it on, and by whom it has been completed, with the aid of Mr. EDWARD YOUNG, Chief of the Division of Statistics of Manufactures in the Census Office at Washington.

No one, except those who have been occupied in similar researches, can have any conception of the amount of labor required to prepare a book of this kind, where nothing is left to the imagination, and every sentence contains a fact of greater or less importance. It is a pioneer work, and has encountered even more of the difficulties than are ordinarily incident to pioneer enterprises. No previous attempt has ever been made to exhibit in one view the marvellous growth and progress of American Manufactures, while this covers the period from the time when the only manufactory in the country was a Glass-House at Jamestown, Virginia, until now, when the aggregate annual product is not less than two thousand millions of dollars, and over one million one hundred thousand men and two hundred and eighty-five thousand women are employed in manufacturing pursuits. But it is some compensation for the labor to know that it has received support from some of the most prominent Manufacturers of the country, and it is especially gratifying to learn, as I do on my return, that you, one of the most eminent and wealthy merchants of Boston, have rendered such assistance in collecting facts with regard to the Manufactures of New England, that it merits public acknowledgment, as it has excited the gratitude of

THE AUTHOR. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7, 1864.

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