By 1906 Amos and his sailmaking brothers were leaving Bath for new careers and opportunities. As mentioned before, Harry Lord went to Boston. Younger brother Herbert went to Waterville. Wilmont left to become a pastor, and Amos moved to Belfast.

 

In 1906 Amos would have been 38 years old, and records show that year he married (wife # 2) Lizzie Perkins in Belfast Maine. Amos is said to have first set up shop in his home for awning and other canvas work during his first years in that town. While searching for details of Amos' time in Belfast, I found listings for a Newton S. Lord, Sailmaker. Newton in fact was A.P. Lords Uncle, and it seems likely this may have been an additional motivation for Amos's move to Belfast. It's possible that A.P. had worked in Newtons shop at some point. What is certain though, later in a small building he had built near the bottom of commercial street, Amos made tents for the United States army in 1917 and 1918. What follows is the remaining text from a saved newspaper article, dated only August 6th. My guess is that it is 1918 and the war was soon to end. Its headed; Belfast has a Little War Factory.

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Few people on their way up commercial street from the steamship pier know that the little building on the left, standing high on the bank and a little back from the street, is a government factory. It is a small wooden building and a part of it is a cosy living apartment, but in the main part is where Amos. P. Lord manufactures canvas tents for the soldiers of the U.S.A.

For more than a year Mr. Lord has been as busy as a bee turning out khaki colored tents for Uncle Sam. He is now finishing his forth contract. Much of the work on these tents is done out in the country, such as splicing the ropes, whipping the short guy ropes, etc. for there are thousands of them needed for every order. The tents are cut and stitched in the factory where about twenty hands are employed. The tents are 16 feet square, 11 high, with a three foot wall, and 7 foot dome. They are made of 12 oz khaki and weigh when finished 105 pounds, requiring 106 yards of duck. They are known as what are pyramidal tents and house 8 men. Mr Lord works under govermental inspection and his factory is as neat as wax and everything is done to perfection. He has a son now in France, Corp. Raymond E. Lord with the 103rd infantry, now in the thick of fighting....

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Apparently he made as many as a thousand tents and had up to 27 employees during those 2 years. Directly after the end of the war, and presumably well rewarded for his enterprise, Amos moved with his wife Lizzie and step daughter Jessie to Camden in 1919, and soon "bought out" the John Berry sail loft.