The Suffolk Manufacturing Company was incorporated January 17, 1831.  The proprietors of the Tremont Mills were incorporated March 19, 1831.  The two were consolidated in 1871.  The treasurers of Suffolk Manufacturing Company were John W. Boott, 1831; Henry Hall, 1832; Henry V. Ward, 1857; Walter Hastings, 1865; William A. Burke, 1868; James C. Ayer, 1870.  The treasurers of the proprietors of the Tremont Mills were William Appleton, 1831; Henry Hall, 1832; Henry V. Ward, 1857; Walter Hastings, 1865; William A. Burke, 1868; James C. Ayer, 1870.  The treasurers of Tremont and Suffolk Mills have been James C. Ayer, 1871; John C. Birdseye, 1872.  The agents of Suffolk Manufacturing Company were Robert Means, 1831; John Wright, 1842; Thomas S. Shaw, 1868.

[Illustration:  WORTHEN-STREET METHODIST CHURCH.]

The agents of the proprietors of the Tremont Mills were Israel Whitney, 1831; John Aiken, 1834; Charles L. Tilden, 1837; Charles F. Battles, 1858; Thomas S. Shaw, 1870.  The agent of Tremont and Suffolk Mills is Thomas S. Shaw, appointed August 19, 1871.  These mills make jeans, cotton flannels, drillings, sheetings, shirtings and print cloth.

The Lawrence Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1831.  The treasurers have been William Appleton, 1831; Henry Hall, 1832; Henry V. Ward, 1857; T. Jefferson Coolidge, 1868; Lucius M. Sargent, 1880.  The agents have been William Austin, 1830; John Aiken, 1837; William S. Southworth, 1849; William F. Salmon, 1865; Daniel Hussey, 1869; John Kilburn, 1878.  The company makes shirtings, sheetings, cotton flannels, and cotton and merino hosiery.

[Illustration:  GEORGE WELLMAN.  Born in Boston, March 16, 1810.  Died April 4, 1864.]

The Boott Cotton Mills were incorporated in 1835.  The treasurers have been John Amory Lowell, 1835; J. Pickering Putnam, 1848; T. Jefferson Coolidge, 1858; Richard D. Rogers, 1865; Augustus Lowell, 1875.  The agents have been Benjamin F. French, 1836; Linus Child, 1845; William A. Burke, 1862; Alexander G. Cumnock, 1868.  The company makes sheetings, shirtings, and printing cloth.

The Massachusetts Cotton Mills were incorporated in 1838.  The treasurers have been John Amory Lowell, 1839; Homer Bartlett, 1848; George Atkinson, 1872.  The agents have been Homer Bartlett, 1840; Joseph White, 1848; Frank F. Battles, 1856.  The mills turn out sheetings, shirtings, and drillings.

[Illustration:  LEE-STREET UNITARIAN CHURCH.  Now French Catholic.  Enlarged and rebuilt.]

The Lowell Machine Shop was incorporated in 1845.  The treasurers have been J. Thomas Stevenson, 1845; William A. Burke, from 1876.  The agents have been William A. Burke, 1845; Mertoun C. Bryant, 1862; Andrew Moody, 1862; George Richardson, 1870; Charles L. Hildreth, 1879.  The company makes all kinds of machinery for mills.

The Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimack River were incorporated in 1792.  The treasurers have been Joseph Cutler, 1792; W.W.  Prout, 1804; Samuel Cutler, 1809; Samuel Tenney, 1817; Kirk Boott, 1822; Joseph Tilden, 1837; P.T.  Jackson, 1838; John T. Morse, 1845.  The agents have been Kirk Boott, 1822; Joseph Tilden, 1837; William Boott, 1838; James B. Francis, 1845, to present date.