What state was the namesake of Boston Beer Company's first brand of beer from?
Samuel Adams Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.
Benjamin Bates IV Born in Mansfield, Massachusetts, he was known later in his life as the "Mansfield Man" or "Great Mansfield," for his employment and philanthropic impact in the New England area. In the early 1830s, he moved to Bristol, Maine, and began a working residency at B. T. Loring Company before creating the Davis, Bates & Turner–a craft goods and service firm. He worked long hours at the firm often at the expense of his family life, and ushered in the early manifestations of Taylorism in industrial Maine to the praise and controversy of the public. After he sustained the Manhattan financial panic of 1873 in Maine, he became a public celebrity and created Bates, Turner & Co. Bates eventually moved to the then-booming town of Lewiston to establish the Bates Manufacturing Company and served as its president from 1850 to 1862. During the 1850s, water quality was a principal issue of the government, and the Maine State Legislature contracted Bates to build the Lewiston Water Power Company: a large mill-based enterprise that built the first canal in the city.