Individual Details
Martin Van Buren Mower
(10 Jan 1836 - 29 May 1914)
Events
| Birth | 10 Jan 1836 | Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Occupation | shoemaker - Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts |  | | ||
| Marriage | 1861 | Mary Ann Burrill | | ||
| Bio Note | Martin served as president of the Lynn City Street Railroad, organized about 1872. | | |||
| Death | 29 May 1914 | following a short illness of heart trouble - Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts | | ||
| Burial | Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts | ||||
| Bio Note | His son, writing for the 1914 Register of the Lynn Historical Society, described Martin Van Buren Mower as "the fortunate possessor of a cheerful, optimistic nature; from his point of view nothing was so bad but that it might have been worse. His tastes were simple and domestic. He loved work of any kind, and after business hours he was accustomed to spend much of his spare time in gardening or some similar occupation. Perhaps a long line of Quaker ancestors may have helped to form these traits of character." | |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Ann Burrill (1838 - 1896) |
| Child | Carrie Marie Mower (1861 - 1919) |
| Child | Frederick Tennyson Mower (1872 - 1956) |
| Father | Amos Mower (1801 - 1850) |
| Mother | Lydia Chase Phillips (1804 - 1896) |
| Sibling | Floramond Bolliver Mower (1825 - 1906) |
| Sibling | Mary Elizabeth Mower (1828 - 1842) |
| Sibling | Infant Daughter Mower (1830 - 1830) |
| Sibling | Adaline Aurelia Mower (1831 - 1896) |
| Sibling | Alfred Adams Mower (1834 - 1895) |
| Sibling | Lydia Maria Mower (1837 - 1887) |
| Sibling | Enoch Warren Mower (1843 - 1827) |
| Sibling | Charles Follen Mower (1845 - 1924) |
Notes
Occupation
Martin entered the shoe business with his brother, Alfred, in 1857 in his father's factory at 75 Broad Street. With business prospering, the brothers built a new wooden factory on Willow Street in 1872. In the 1880s, that building was replaced with a brick building. The Great Lynn Fire in 1889 destroyed the factory, along with a large section of downtown Lynn. Martin retired from the shoe business after the fire, maintaining an interest in the leather business with his son and nephew for several years, up until within a year of his death.Endnotes
1. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts To The End Of The Year 1849: Volume I - Births (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1905), 269.
2. Frederick T. Mower, "Martin Van Buren Mower," The Register of the Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Massachusetts), For the Year 1914 (Number XVIII): 55.
3. Frederick T. Mower, "Martin Van Buren Mower," The Register of the Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Massachusetts), For the Year 1914 (Number XVIII): 56.
4. Frederick T. Mower, "Martin Van Buren Mower," The Register of the Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Massachusetts), For the Year 1914 (Number XVIII): 56.
5. Frederick T. Mower, "Martin Van Buren Mower," The Register of the Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Massachusetts), For the Year 1914 (Number XVIII): 56.
6. Frederick T. Mower, "Martin Van Buren Mower," The Register of the Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Massachusetts), For the Year 1914 (Number XVIII): 56.
7. Frederick T. Mower, "Martin Van Buren Mower," The Register of the Lynn Historical Society (Lynn, Massachusetts), For the Year 1914 (Number XVIII): 56.