J. Winslow Jones, nephew of the canning innovators, began the first canning factory in Maine in Portland.
George S. Jewett, who worked at the Jones factory, later moved to Norridgewock, where he worked for Burnham and Morrill's corn factory, and eventually went into business for himself.
He purchased a number of corn factories and employed hundreds of people -- many women and children -- in various Somerset County communities.
