_http://www.google.com/patents?id=wvpLAAAAEBAJ&printsec=claims&zoom=4&ie=ISO -8859-1&output=html_ (http://www.google.com/patents?id=wvpLAAAAEBAJ&printsec=claims&zoom=4&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html) PATENT - SOLOMON SMITH, Acton Wit: WINTHROP E. FAULKNER & W.S. RODIMON Inventor: SOLOMON SMITH Assignee: SMITH a SCHOALER ============================================================================ ====== Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 57 - Page 251 Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Law - 1854 71. For an Improvement in Parti-Coloring Machines,- Solomon Smith, Assignor to himself and Wm. Schoaler, Acton, Massachusetts. Claim.—" I claim dividing each of the horizontal layers or frames into two sections, and carrying the cloth from the lower to the upper sides of such sections between the contiguous inner ends of said sections. And, in combination with the said mode of using sections and carrying the cloth between them, I claim the improvement of making the end of one section lap by that of the other, so that the same contrivances used to compress the several frames together, or down upon one another, may also operate to compress the two sections together, and upon the cloth extending between them, as specified." Full view ============================================================================ ========== A pocket almanack, for the year ... : calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay. Cotton & Woollen Print Works. McLaren George, Acton Schouler William, Acton ================================================================= History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: with biographical ..., Volume 1 edited by Duane Hamilton Hurd The pencil manufactory of Henry M. Smith, East Acton, was built in 1848, by Ebeuezer Davis, Esq., and has been occupied successively since that time by Benjamin Davis, sash and blind manufactory; by William Schouler, print works; by A. G. Fay as pencil manufactory, and by its present occupant also in the manufacture of lead-pencils. ============================================================================ === 1850 United States Federal Census Name: William Schouler Age: 50 Estimated birth year: abt 1800 Birth Place: Scotland Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Family Number: 19 HOUSEHOLD: William Schouler 50 occ: Dyer Mrs Schouler 50 b. ME Margaret Schouler 9 Annette Schouler 3 Martha Wormwood 20 Silas Connant 26 ======================================================== 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Wm Schouler Age: 53 Birth Year: abt 1807 Birthplace: Scotland Home in 1860: South Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Gender: Male Post Office: South Acton HOUSEHOLD: Wm Schouler 53 occ: Printer v-3800/9000 Elizabeth Schouler 31 b. ME Jeanette E Schouler 13 Susan C Schouler 5 Francis A Schouler 3 J W Schouler 13 Wm A Schouler 9 Catherine Coghlan 2 ====================================================================== IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 North America WILLIAM SCHOULER Male Spouse: MARY CLARK Marriage: 04 SEP 1837 Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Messages: Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. ==================================================================== IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 North America WILLIAM SCHOULER Male Marriages: Spouse: FRANCES ELIZA WARREN Marriage: 06 OCT 1835 Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Messages: Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. ============================================================================ ======== SOLOMON SMITH, JR., and CATHERINE EVELETH FAULKNER were my 3-great grandparents. Was really surprised to discover over Christmas holiday that he had a patent. This lead me to do a little research on many patent was assigned to who also lived in Acton for a time. It really pays to keep checking GOOGLE books for new items that are adding continually. I had another great find in GOOGLE books before Christmas that was about a school my 4-gg had in Nashville, TN., that revealed a daughter I was totally unaware of. Wishing the list great genealogy finds in 2010! Jacqueline Sleeper Russell _http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jacquelinesr_ (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jacquelinesr)