Robert Eames (politician)
American miller and political figure
Robert Eames (also spelled Robert Emes) was an American miller and politician who served as Saugus's first representative to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Early life
Eames was born to Robert and Sally Eames in about 1790 in present-day Roxbury, New Hampshire. His family was involved in politics, with his father serving as Roxbury's first town moderator and brother Daniel Adams Eames also holding political office in Roxbury before moving to Saugus. Through Daniel Adams Eames, Eames was the uncle of Joseph Alexander Ames and Nathan Ames. Eames had one son, Lucius (born 1815) and one daughter, Elizabeth Willis (born 1817).
Business career
In 1809, Eames constructed a fulling mill below the Sluice Pond Dam in Lynn, Massachusetts. He sold the mill in 1815 to silk dyers Andrew and John Hall of Malden, Massachusetts.
In 1811, Eames' brother Joseph started a Morocco leather manufacturing business on the Saugus River. He later added a gristmill and fulling mill to the property. Robert Eames joined his brother in this business in 1813.
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