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There was also Charles Tufts who owned a brickmaking establishment and who donated one hundred acres for Tufts College, later Tufts University.
Another James Tufts, born in New Hampshire, was an attorney and boomer politician who served in the legislatures of Nebraska, idaho, and Montana. All four of these men were educated and successful New Englanders; all four share the same current obscurity. I have not been able to find evidence that some or all were related although that seems likely. I performed the currently obligatory internet search and checked the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia as well as the 1911 and 1941 editions of Encyclopedia Brittanica in my library. I found no articles on any of these men.
James W. lived throughout the 1880s and may be the most widely remembered among the Tufts surname. He is known to golfers and equestrians because of Pinehurst. Also to snowbirds; I think Pinehurst was the first snowbird resort in the US.
He is also known to collectors and museums. Aside from inventing the soda fountain, he produced a full line of high quality silverplated wares, many of which have survived. I'm not a Tufts collector but do own one piece of his. Scans of his catalogues are in the Smithsonian digital collection and can be viewed there or on archive.org.
James W. lived throughout the 1880s and may be the most widely remembered among the Tufts surname. He is known to golfers and equestrians because of Pinehurst. Also to snowbirds; I think Pinehurst was the first snowbird resort in the US.
He is also known to collectors and museums. Aside from inventing the soda fountain, he produced a full line of high quality silverplated wares, many of which have survived. I'm not a Tufts collector but do own one piece of his. Scans of his catalogues are in the Smithsonian digital collection and can be viewed there or on archive.org.
Thank you. I find that interesting. He was certainly on target for the times in his marketting. I think that I knew that there is a golf course named Pinehurst, but I knew nothing about it beyond that.
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While many of these could make money today, i am at a loss as to how a private railroad (i am assuming only on your property), could make money. Atleast the blacksmith shop could provide income which overtime would offset its original costs (which still would have to be paid).
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Probably the only way to find out for sure -- if it's important enough to you -- is the have a genealogist run a family tree. Or, you could do so yourself at a site like Ancestry.com, which is where the genealogists go to look it up. Either way, it shouldn't be very costly.
I was given a link once to a website like ancestry but free. I never used it as i got grandfathered into ancestry when its free version shut down (as well as having found most info i was looking for) so i cant tell you about how good it is. I believe it was familysearch.org.
While many of these could make money today, i am at a loss as to how a private railroad (i am assuming only on your property), could make money. Atleast the blacksmith shop could provide income which overtime would offset its original costs (which still would have to be paid).
You're confusing the fruits of wealth with the building of wealth.
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You're confusing the fruits of wealth with the building of wealth.
Im assuming your refering to the "fruits" as the item itself, with the building of wealth as actually having tangeable money and not objects? Or vice versa.
I found an amazing website on foot powered machinery. There are so many wonderful machines and businesses described, I've linked to a particularly interesting page in the website. I'm posting a fantastic video as well.
If you have a smithy here's an interesting tool. I didn't know that these existed before I found the video. They come in different sizes to handle different sorts of work. They are still made.
I can see how that would be handy, especially for fullering in a long piece like a sword. It's the same as the modern power hammer, just not as powerful, but I can see where it would be a nice tool to have, and could be built by the smith in his shop to his own needs.
I recently decided to watch all of Jeff Williams' videos in chronological order. This is one of the first I found; it's a winner. He casually mentions making blueprints from a photograph. How many can do that?
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