Background
He was the son of a farmers family. Since his father died when he was very young, his mother gave him a severe education.
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Narciso Ferreira
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Career
Seduced by the industrialization in the end of the 19th century, he was only nineteen years old when he set two looms in the farm house where they lived in Pedome. The production was sold in fairs and markets in the north of the country. Afterwards, he made friends with merchants an bankers and soon became very known and respected in the business world.
Around 1887 he buys a groundplot on the edge of the river Avenue in Riba d’Avenue and he sets the first factory in 1890 with forty looms.
In 1894 he establishes a commercial society together with Manuel Joaquim Oliveira, José Augusto Dias (banker), Ortgão de Sampaio (engineer) and José Fernandes, named Sampaio Ferreira & Compania Lda., with 200 power looms, powered by a weir built on the river.
He employed approximately 12.000 workers in the region.
