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The Lord Brothers in Bath,  Maine

                   1889 - 1905

In 1889, Amos moved to Bath to join his brother Harry S. Lord. Business directories of the time report that Harry had a shop established in 1885 on Union Wharf. During these 20 years in Bath, from 1885 through 1905, all or some combination of the sailmaking Lord brothers applied their trade. These former apprentices of their Uncle Sam Mugridge; Harry, Amos, Wilmont and Herbert, ultimately combined forces at their older brothers loft.

Bath was a good place to be if you were sailmaking in the 1880s. According to Lincoln P. Paine in his book  DOWN EAST,  shipyards in and around the Bath area launched 255 schooners and 62 square riggers during that decade, and it's probable that most all of their sails were made locally, divided among a number of shops employing a number of men. At this writing I have no record of sails for specific vessels that were made by the Lords, but it's certain that the brothers had a respectable share of what was going on at that time. A.P. Lord in his own words written later in his life for a newspaper article states that during those years in Bath, he and his brothers made sails for three, four, and five masted schooners.

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