Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Seversen, C. W. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 March 21, 2009, 4:26 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Seversen, C. W., superintendent of the MacKennon Mills, Little Falls, is a native of Deerfield, and at the age of fourteen began to work in a mill as a needle boy, with the Troy Manufacturing Company of Cohoes. He soon went to New Hartford, and for a time also worked in a mill at Kingston, Canada. He then worked for J. C. Miller four and a half years at Baldwinsville, N. Y. In December, 1890, he came to his present position. He had previously, on two occasions, worked for a short time with Mr. MacKennon, and his abilities and zeal were well known. He is thoroughly expert in every department of the manufacture of woolen goods. His family has long resided in New York State, and his father was formerly a brick manufacturer of Cohoes. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/seversen982gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb