INGENUITY AND LUXURY 



by machinery. The story of this development is ad- 

 mirably told by Mr. George C. Houghton from whose 

 account, as published in the U. S. Census Report, we 

 quote at length. 



THE RISE OF THE SHOE INDUSTRY 



"The history of this branch of manufacturing, as 

 it has progressed from the shoemaker's bench, where 

 shoes were turned out one at a time, to the modern 

 factory with its output of thousands of pairs daily 

 marks, as do few others, the remarkable industrial 

 progress of the present age. 



"The introduction of the boot-and-shoe industry 

 in America is almost coincident with the first settle- 

 ment of New England, for it is a matter of history 

 that in the year 1629 a shoemaker named Thomas 

 Beard, with a supply of hides, arrived on board the 

 Mayflower. This pioneer of the American boot and 

 shoe trade was accredited to the governor of the colony, 

 by the company in London, at a salary of 10 per 

 annum and a grant of fifty acres of land, upon which 

 he should settle. Seven years after the arrival of 

 Beard, the city of Lynn saw the inception of the in- 

 dustry which has given it a world- wide fame, for there, 

 in 1636, Philip Kertland, a native of Buckinghamshire, 

 began the manufacture of shoes, and fifteen years 

 later the shoemakers of Lynn were supplying the trade 

 of Boston. As early as 1648, we find tanning and 

 shoemaking mentioned as an industry in the colony 

 of Virginia, special mention being made of the fact 



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