Daniel Day (manufacturer)

Pliny Earle I, had developed carding machines at Leicester, Massachusetts, near Worcester, as early as the 1780s.

His son Joseph, born in 1790, joined the business, along with Jerry Wheelock.

Quickly a loom was added to the carding machine works by 1811, and they later greatly enlarged the mill by 1825.

Daniel Day was also an ancestor of a branch of the Wheelock family which established an early factory continues in business in the 21st Century, as Berroco, Inc, now headquartered in nearby North Smithfield, Rhode Island.

[4] It also contains clues about one of his children, and he is listed as a widower, who died on October 26, 1848, of Consumption or Tuberculosis, at the age of 81.