pages 716 + 717 Capt. Isaac SOUTHGATE and Col. Henry SARGENT, both of them enterprizing and public-spirited citizens of Leicester, began the manufacturing of machine-cards in 1810, as the firm of SOUTHGATE & SARGENT, in Col. Thomas DENNY's house. Col. SARGENT withdrew in 1812 and was in the same business till his death in 1829, his brother Col. Joseph D. SARGENT being with him from 1814-1819. Capt. SOUTHGATE, in 1826, associated with Joshua LAMB, Dwight BRISCO, Joseph A. DENNY and John STONE, as the firm of Isaac SOUTHGATE & Co., manufacturing machine cards in the building West of the hotel. Mr STONE died in 1827, Mr. LAMB retired in 1831 and Capt. SOUTHGATE in 1843. The name was changed to BISCO (not Brisco like above) & DENNY. In 1828 they built th Central Factory and in 1845 the present factory of BISCO & DENNY. In 1857 Charles A. DENNY and George BISCO joined the Firm. Joseph A. DENNY died in 1875 and Deacon BISCO in 1882. When John W. BISCO joined the Firm in 1857 a branch establishment was opened in Manchester, NH. Christopher C. DENNY became a associated with Mr. Alonzo WHITE in 1846, after Mr. Josiah Q. LAMB retired. The Firm naed WHITE & DENNY. Mr. WHITE died in 1850. In 1868 Mr. DENNY disposed of his interests to H. Arthur WHITE and the Firm of WHITE & Son continued to 1888.