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Show PAPERMAKIN BY HAN IN AMERIC 26 [}lxin] DAVID AMES, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS he birth of David Ames s recordedas having been on February2, 1760 In West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. His father manufactured nafls an ndustry. Durin the Revolutionary War David Ames furnfshed guns and shovels to th aking of printing paper. Another paper mill hadalso been establishe ety Fee cight, and ¢ s belfeved that {t wa ight b Years Springtteld mill with the name "D.& J. Ames" in the bottom panel o the same woodcut Iabel. David Ames, the elder, dfed August 6, 1847 [xxtv] COLUMBIAN MILL The large woodcut of the "Columbfan MilI" wascut by the fllustrfou Dr. Alexander Anderson, but the first use of this design asa paper labe I uncertain. The earliest use of the woodcut that we have been able t find fsa label witha type border and the letterin; :"A. Bradley & Sons Dansville, Livingston County, N.Y., Foolscap Noot." It s posstble, ho ever, that Dr. Anderson cut the block fora somewhat earlier mifl tha theBradley undertaking. The first paper mill in Dansville was buflt b Nathanfel Rochester about 1810, Ten years later Amos Bradley of Hart ford, Connecticut, moved to Livingston County, New York, and b the making of ‘writing and printing paperin the old Faulkner mill; th Dew enterprise was called the "Columbfan Mill," but this was certainl & Woo *gulation second-storey drying-loft;a two-horse cart presumedlylade With a good suppl of rags is passing through the mill gateway |