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1883: Charles Storrow, president; James A. Dupee, Augustus Lowell, Howard Stockton, George Atkinson.

LOWELL MACHINE SHOP About 1860

Clerk of corporation, Augustus T. Owen; treasurer, George Atkinson; agent, T. P. Hutchinson. The company guards the storage of water at Lake Winnipiseogee.

Nor would a sketch of Lowell be complete without mention of the firm of J. C. Ayer and Company. Dr. J. C. Ayer started the business in 1837, when he offered to physicians the prescription of cherry pectoral. It soon became a very popular remedy, and he was soon embarked in the enterprise

APPLETON MILLS. 1845.

of manufacturing it. Later he added to the list of his proprietary medicines cathartic pills, sarsaparilla, ague cure, and hair vigor. He died July 3,