Background
Smith, Harry Worcester was born on November 5, 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Worcester and Josephine (Lord) Smith.
Smith, Harry Worcester was born on November 5, 1865 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Worcester and Josephine (Lord) Smith.
Educated Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Chemnitz (Germany) Weaving School, Glasgow School of Design, Bradford (England) Technology School.
Inventor of more than 40 patents pertaining to automatic weaving and design. Consolidated the Crompton-Thayer and Crompton-Knowles companies, 1907, the combination making the largest loom works in the world. Effected sale of the Queen Dyeing Company, of Providence.
Rhode Island, to the United States Finishing Company, of New York City, for $2,000,000, in 1909.
Sold Thomas G. Plant shoe factory, at Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, and all his patents on shoe machinery, to the United States Shoe Machinery Company of America for $6,000,000, in 1910. Consolidated the F. East. Reed and Prentice Brothers, machine tool manufacturers, the Reed Foundry, Reed-Curtis Screw Company and the Crompton Associates plants into the Reed-Prentice Company, 1912.
Member Worcester Park Commission 7 years Founder Masters of Foxhounds Association America, 1907. Member Engineers.
Married Mildred Crompton, October 19, 1892.