Calvin Palmer LADD

  General Notes:

Notes from Warren Ladd: of Dorchester. He was educated at the public schools and the Haverhill Academy. He learned at Gookin and Herbert the trade of woolen machine manufacture and the iron foundry business. He carried on the business for himself for some time, but sold out and entered the employ of E & F Fairbanks, scale manufacturers at St Johnsbury, Caledonia Co, VT where he had charge of three of their shops. He remained with them three years, made some improvement in the movement of levers, obtained a patent for the same, and commenced the manufacture of scales under his patent under the firm name of Ladd & Jameson, Irasburg, VT; sold out his business at Irasburg and removed to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and entered the employ of Hedge & Boomer as superintendent of their establishment for the manufacture of tools, stove, machinery, etc.; continued with them for nine years and then bought them out and carried on the business for himself for ten years. He was often employed as an expert in cases relating to machinery. While at Montreal he was appointed by the city as one of three commissioners to the great Hyde Park Exhibition in London, in 1851. He has the diploma and medal for services signed by Prince Albert. On Feb 22, 1861 his foundry and machine shops were destroyed by fire, and he sold out what property remained and returned to the US. He accepted a position in the chief engineer's office at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and remained there two years, then he superintended the Essex Felt Mill, NJ, for William Bloodgood, and remained with him and at his brothers factory in Brooklyn six years.

"In the summer of 1831, Calvin P. Ladd built a two-story shop just below the grist-mill. Here he did business as a general machinist; and manufactured, among other things, a large number of winnowing-mills. The shop was afterwards removed and modified, and is now occupied by Childs Brooks as a shoe-shop."

Calvin married Mary (Polly) Patience Williams HARMON on 9 Sep 1830 in Coventry, Orleans Co, VT. (Mary (Polly) Patience Williams HARMON was born on 15 Apr 1811 in Stuarts Lake, Northwest Territory, Canada and died on 27 Sep 1861 in Montréal, , Québec, Canada.)

Calvin next married Charlotte E WELSH on 10 Nov 1864. (Charlotte E WELSH was born on an unknown date and died on an unknown date.)