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Francis Lowell was an American industrialist and a key figure in the early American textile industry during the early 19th century. He is best known for founding the Boston Manufacturing Company and for establishing the first fully integrated textile mill in the United States in Lowell, Massachusetts. His innovations in manufacturing processes and labor organization helped to revolutionize the textile industry, making it more efficient and paving the way for the Industrial Revolution in America. Lowell also played a significant role in promoting the factory system and employing young women, known as "Mill Girls," in his mills.

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