This is a very interesting subject that will be included in my forthcoming two-volume, tenth book, titled, An Early Industry of Household Wares: The Red Earthenware of Salem Village, South Danvers, Peabody and Salem, Massachusetts: "...While red earthenware production was largely limited to the Danvers, Peabody and Salem area in this part of Essex County, Massachusetts in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century, there appears to have been a lesser-known flowerpot manufacturer in the twentieth century in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Dunbar Lockwood (1891-1967) was born in Boston in 1891, although he was living in Beverly, Massachusetts by 1900, according to that year’s United States Federal Census. His parents were Thomas (1853-1919) and Emmaline Stackpole Lockwood (1858-1944). His father was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts and was listed as a dry goods merchant in the 1900 and 1910 United States Federal Censuses, while his mother was born in Ohio.Lockwood was back living in Boston by 1910, and he married Carolina Sinkler Lockwood (1896-1993) in Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, on June 26, 1920.
The 1930 United States Federal Census lists Lockwood with an occupation of “flowerpot manufacturer” in Boston, working for the Abraham Hews Pottery in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was also listed as an employee of the Hews Pottery in 1934 in Volume 445 of the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (see below). However, he was living with his family in Boxford by 1935, and listed with an occupation of “flowerpot manufacturer” in Boxford in 1940.
It is unclear how long production may have lasted in Boxford, although the business seems to have been established about the time that the Moses Paige (1847/48-1941) Pottery in Peabody was slowing operations. It is possible that Lockwood recognized the financial opportunity that he could have capitalized on with the Paige Pottery company going out of business, and perhaps taking over that production in Boxford, which had previously catered to a widespread flowerpot marketplace in different parts of the United States. But little information is documented today about Lockwood's flowerpots.
Additionally, Lockwood was a member of the Harvard class of 1913, though he did not graduate with the class. In 1913, he was also involved in an Arctic voyage aboard the schooner Polar Bear, which was documented by the Peabody Museum at Harvard (see below). From 1913–1914, Lockwood participated in an Arctic expedition to Nome, Alaska, with fellow Harvard-affiliated figures, including zoologist Joseph Dixon and artist Samuel J. Mixter..."
Note: For more information about twentieth century flowerpot production in the Peabody area - see my second book, titled, The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries: https://historicbeverly.net/product/the-moses-b-paige-company-the-last-of-the-peabody-potteries/.
For more information about the A.H. Hews Pottery - see a feature story I wrote for the March 17, 2023 issue of Antiques and the Arts Weekly, titled, The Abraham Hews Pottery Of Weston & North Cambridge, Mass.: http://www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2023/03/new-published-story-in-antiques-and.html.
Dunbar Lockwood: A Flowerpot Manufacturer in Boxford, Mass.
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