Ephraim Morin textile mill record book, manual and catalog collection
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of cotton manuals, mill calculation tables, notebooks with handwritten notes and production records, and textile monographs. Most are inscribed with the name and address of the collector.
Dates
- Usage: 1907-1951
Biographical / Historical
French Canadian immigrant Ephraim Dien Morin (1896-1951)lived in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts. He worked at Crown Manufacturing Company in Pawtucket Rhode Island from 1920, and was overseer of spinning at Charlton Mills in Fall River by 1925. The 1930 census lists his occupation as cotton mill overseer. He married Phoebe in 1918; one daughter, Elsie, is listed in the 1930 census. Ephraim died in 1951 in Fall River, and Phoebe died in 1976 in Tiverton, Rhode Island.
Extent
27 items
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquired as part of the papers of Kenneth D. Langley, December 2018
Source
- Morin, Ephraim D., 1896-1951 (Compiler, Person)
- Title
- Ephraim Morin textile mill record book, manual and catalog collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Judy Farrar
- Date
- 2018 November
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Repository