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Wooburn, to pay his respects to the Countess, and came back in the evening.
Pamela 2006
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Her ladyship would not be prevailed upon to stay dinner; and, saying she would be at Wooburn all the next day, took a very tender leave of me, wishing me all manner of happiness, as I did her.
Pamela 2006
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She sent her gentleman, the preceding evening, to let me know that business had brought her as far as Wooburn; and if it would not be unacceptable, she would pay her respects to me at breakfast, the next morning, being speedily to leave England.
Pamela 2006
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This was in the early 1830s, early to mid 1830s, and had a falling out with the Roxbury India Rubber Company and heard about a mill in Wooburn, Massachusetts, a few miles away and so he moved to Wooburn and began working with Nathaniel Hayward who had been a stable operator but had become enamored of rubber and actually first gave Goodyear the idea to use sulfur in experiments.
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SLACK: Yes, he did experiments basically wherever he could find heat because to - once he knew that heat was an essential component, he began to look for fire wherever he could find it, and he would, when he was able to use this mill in Wooburn, he would use that.
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When Goodyear had moved on from Wooburn to Springfield, Massachusetts, and was working there on perfecting his process, this was after his discovery of 1839, and he was - he convinced Horace Cutler who was a shoe manufacturer to come in with him.
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He was convinced of the holiness of his mission and he had no shame about sponging off his fellow residents of Wooburn or anywhere else for use of their fire or for money, and he would go around to the blacksmiths and so forth at the end of the day and say, can I use your fire before it dies out and, of course, some of them agreed.
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And Goodyear worked I Wooburn for several years and came up by accident with the discovery in 1839 and it's not clear.
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SLACK: Wooburn is about ten miles north of Boston, and he was living there.
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One of the most wonderful aspects of Goodyear's life was the forebearance of the citizens of Wooburn, Mass who put up with him.
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