[Illustration:  PRESCOTT-STREET CHURCH.]

The Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1831.  The presidents were Abbott Lawrence, from August, 1846, to July, 1850; Henry Hall, to June, 1856; Francis B. Crowinshield, to August, 1857; John Amory Lowell, to June, 1864; J. Thomas Stevenson, to June, 1877; Richard S. Fay, until his decease, March 7, 1882.  The treasurers were James Bell, from 1845 until his decease, in May, 1857; Francis B. Crowinshield, to October, 1861; J. Thomas Stevenson, to June, 1864; Homer Bartlett, to June, 1872; Charles S. Storrow, to June, 1878; James A. Dupee, to June, 1882.  Directors, 1883:  Charles Storrow, president; James A. Dupee, Augustus Lowell, Howard Stockton, George Atkinson.  Clerk of corporation, Augustus T. Owen; treasurer, George Atkinson; agent, T.P.  Hutchinson.  The company guards the storage of water at Lake Winnipiseogee.

[Illustration:  LOWELL MACHINE SHOP About 1860.]

[Illustration:  APPLETON MILLS. 1845.]

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 of manufacturing it.  Liter he added to the list of his proprietary medicines cathartic pills, sarsaparilla, ague cure, and hair vigor.  He died July 3, 1878, after having accumulated a princely fortune.  His brother, and partner, Frederick Ayer, conducts the business.  The firm occupy several large buildings and employ three hundred people.  The world demands fifteen tons of Ayer’s pills yearly.  They publish thirteen million almanacs, in ten languages, issuing twenty-six editions for different localities, keeping several large presses constantly at work.

[Illustration:  HIGH-STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.]

C.J.  Hood and Company also make sarsaparilla and other proprietary medicines.  They employ seventy-five operatives.

E.W.  Hoyt and Company employ twenty hands, and make two million bottles of German cologne.

There are numerous other manufactories in the city, of more or less extent.  Their products consist of porus and adhesive plasters, lung protectors, sulphuric, hydrochloric, and nitric acids, and other chemicals and dye-stuffs, belting, paper stock, yarns, shoulder-braces, suspenders, shoe-linings, elastic webbing, sackings, rugs, mats, gauze undergarments, looms, harnesses, felting, hose, bunting, seamless flags, awning stripes, reeds, braid, cord, chalk-lines, picture cords, twines, belts, fire hose, leather, bolts, nuts, screws, washers, boilers, tanks, kettles, presses, fire-escapes, water-wheels, wire-heddles, card-clothing, wood-working and knitting machinery, cartridges, chimney-caps, stamps, tools, lathes, files, wire-cloth, scales, steel wire, paper boxes, music stands, mouldings, carriages, sleighs, shuttles, doors, sashes, blinds, furniture, asbestos covering, blotters, crayons, drain-pipe, glue, lamp-black, machine brushes, matches, croquet sets.