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John Wiley Edmands | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's3rd district | |
| In office March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855 | |
| Preceded by | James H. Duncan |
| Succeeded by | William S. Damrell |
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| Born | March 1, 1809 |
| Died | January 31, 1877(1877-01-31) (aged 67) |
| Political party | Whig,Republican |
John Wiley Edmands (March 1, 1809 – January 31, 1877) was a member of theUnited States House of Representatives fromMassachusetts.
Edmands was born inBoston on March 1, 1809. He completed preparatory studies, and graduated fromEnglish High School of Boston. He became interested inwoolen mills inDedham and the Pacific Mills Company inLawrence.
Edmands was elected as aWhig to theThirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1854, and returned to Pacific Mills and served as its treasurer. Edmands was a presidential elector on theRepublican ticket in 1868.
He died inNewton on January 31, 1877. His interment was inMount Auburn Cemetery inCambridge.
FollowingBenjamin Bussey's 1842 death, his woolen mill onMother Brook was sold in November 1843 to Edmands, who was then one of the partners in the company that served as the mill's selling agent, Amos & Abbot Lawrence.[1] The land was purchased for $30,000 while the machinery, the stock, and materials were sold for more than $45,000.[1] In 1850, he sold half of the company, which he renamedMaverick Woolen Mill, toGardner Colby.[1]
In 1863, Colby and Edmands took in new partners, including Charles L. Harding, to form theMerchant Woolen Company.[2] The new company purchased the Maverick Woolen Mills and eventually all of the other mills on Mother Brook.[2] By the 1870s, the Merchant's Woolen Company had monopolized all of the water in Mother Brook.[3] In 1870, they were the largest taxpayer inDedham, Massachusetts[4] and, when the New York Times wrote about them in 1887, it described the company as "one of the largest [industrial operations] in the state."[5]
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