Changes: James Edward Ashworth (1831-1910)

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James E. Ashworth (1831-1910) J. E. Ashworth & Sons blanket mill (b. May 04, 1831; Bury, England - d. October 29, 1910; Westbrookville, Mamakating Township, Sullivan County, New York, USA)

Marriage

Ellen E. Ramsbottom (1841-1910)

Children

Nellie Ashworth (1861-?)
Charles Ashworth (1866-?)
William Ashworth (1869-?) who died between 1880 and 1910
Albert P. Ashworth (1872-1934) who married Luella Griffin (1877-1966)
Daniel Gunner Ashworth (1876-1949) who married Sybil H. Decker (1881-1946)

Greenwich, New York

In 1880 he was living in Greenwich, New York and working in a woolen mill.

J.E. Ashworth & Sons

J.E. Ashworth & Sons had four blanket mills: Hartland, Vermont; Westbrookville, New York; another in New York, and Whippany, New Jersey.

Obituary

Middletown Daily Times-Press on Tuesday, November 1, 1910:

James E. Ashworth. A well known business man of Westbrookville, died at his home there on Saturday from a complication of diseases, at the age of 80 years. Mr. Ashworth was a member of the firm of J. E. Ashworth & Sons, who manufacture the fawn colored blankets used by the Wells Fargo, American and Adams Express Companies, and the Standard and Atlantic Oil Companies, in Port Jervis and other cities In this vicinity.

Burial

He is buried in Westbrookville Cemetery

Research on James Edward Ashworth

"... [He] came to United States as a young man. Manufactured horse blankets in Vermont. Came to [Westbrookville, New York] had a heavy loss due to fire. After the fire he went to Whippany, New Jersey. Later he returned to this place, engaged in the saw mill business and later rebuilt the mill and conducted a large blanket manufacturing business."
Leslie Ashworth wrote on March 30, 2007: My cousin saw your site about the Ashworth family. She was very pleased with it. This was her e-mail to me. "I took a look at the genealogy site. It makes me so happy to see those pics on it. We really needed to have something of our history archived. And god knows no -one else will do it." I think that this is praise to you, Richard. My cousin is a very wonderful person. She went to a lot of trouble to get this stuff about the mill for me. It was in an attic and stored away. I repeat here ... in Summittville are the actual shuttles and the bobbins from the Ashworth Mill and you may find stuff about your own family. You need to take a road trip if you can. When the flood of 2005 hit, there were still barrels filled with the wooden bobbins. I have one that I found buried in the grass next to where the old waterwheel used to be. The place still has the bathrooms intact. The facilities are still there for Men and Women. Also ... damn I wish I had written the name down. The place where they had the vats for soaking the wool. A guy built it and he put a stone in one of the walls. He chiseled his name on it. Also, there was a swing bridge over Pine Kill ... one of those rope bridges that you had to hang on to the ropes with both hands as you walked over the planks. The looms purchased after the fire were second-hand Compton and Knowles looms. Also, the red brick of the display house, and I have a brick, it says LOWE on it. Also, my Father has the remains of the display table in the apartment above his garage. The table top is held together with wooden pegs. Did the Ashworth Mill support the hamlet of Westbrookville? Of course it did. There was no electricity in Westbrookville until a line was strung from Otisville to power the generator at the Mill. The Ashworths’ did not use much American wool to weave their blankets. They imported bales of wool from England, Ireland, and France. Pattern Number One was the Stuart Plaid ... many threads of white wool and shot back and forth with many colors. The fringe was snipped by huge shears and the fringe was twisted by women. My Dad still has the shears that he used. My grandfather, so did my dad say to me, put him to work in the mill when he was thirteen years of age. And now I ask you, what is a work house? Also ... who was Blanche? She lived next down to my grand parents house, just beyond the line of lilacs. I remember visiting her and the place was a real dump but I was very small. I thought it was so. There was just stuff everywhere and an old lady lived there. She died and my grandfather went through her stuff and found a whole bunch of money squirreled away. Old people do that when they get old. She had a bunch of money and my grandfather didn’t take it. He declared it. I repeat ... who was Blanche? My telephone line is out at the main. Has been since yesterday. I have no telephone. I only have hi-speed to communicate at this time.

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 ==Obituary==
+Middletown Daily Times-Press on Tuesday, November 1, 1910:
-James E. Ashworth. A well known business man of Westbrookville, died at his home there on Saturday from a complication of diseases, at the age of 80 years. Mr. Ashworth was a member of the firm of J. E. Ashworth & Sons, who manufacture the fawn colored blankets used by the Wells Fargo, American and Adams Express Companies, and the Standard and Atlantic Oil Companies, in Port Jervis and other cities In this vicinity.
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+James E. Ashworth. A well known business man of Westbrookville, died at his home there on Saturday from a complication of diseases, at the age of 80 years. Mr. Ashworth was a member of the firm of J. E. Ashworth & Sons, who manufacture the fawn colored blankets used by the Wells Fargo, American and Adams Express Companies, and the Standard and Atlantic Oil Companies, in Port Jervis and other cities In this vicinity.
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 ==Burial==