- A. J. RAY, general manager of the Janesville Cotton Manufacturing
Co.; born in Cooperstown,
- Otsego Co., N.Y.; moved to Massachusetts when a boy; commenced
working in a cotton factory when 12 years of age; was for twenty-five
years in the cotton print works at North Adams, Mass.; for sixteen
years as manager and owner of mills at that place; came to Janesville
in 1875.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 719.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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