Asa Jillson
American, 1783 - 1848
Asa Jillson resided in Dorchester, Massachusetts, from 1811 to 1828 and in Willimantic, Connecticut, the rest of his life. In Willimantic, he founded both a cotton mill and a dynasty of cotton manufacturers. He was the son of an inventor who successfully adapted hand looms to water power; Asa, in his turn, manufactured machinery for cotton mills. Asa Jillson's son, William Lawrence, and grandson, William Curtis, also manufactured cotton goods and machinery in Willimantic until the end of the nineteenth century. Asa Jillson died on 7 April 1848 in Willimantic, Connecticut. He is buried in Old Willimantic Cemetery.
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American, 1826 - 1901