The Gunpowder Industry
WEBThe Loomis Brothers had made the bulk of their seed money in cigar manufacturing in Suffield, CT, in the early 1800's, and had even partnered in the 1820's with Augustus Hazard in owning small powder mills in and around Connecticut. Hazard was born in South Kingston, Rhode Island on April 28, 1802, but his family moved to a relative's ...