An important entrepreneur and promoter of industrialization during the early American Industrial Revolution. He studied British cotton manufacturing technology and introduced it to America, building an integrated factory model of mechanized spinning and weaving. He founded the Boston Manufacturing Company and constructed America's first integrated textile mill in Waltham, Massachusetts. He created the foundation for the factory labor system known as the "Lowell System" (a structure in which young unmarried women were hired and housed in dormitories). A pivotal figure in determining the development of New England's textile industry, he became the namesake for the city of Lowell.

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