Lew got tagged with the nickname 'Mose' when he was a child and showed up at the local lumber mill office after walking/sledding there through deep snow. He arrived all wet, boot strings dangling, and one of the men hanging out there jokingly commented that he looked something like the local tramp-about-town named Mose, and the nickname stuck.
Lew was the third child of Samuel L. and Annie E. Wood Painter, in a family of eleven children - nine boys and two girls: Homer Brown, Samuel Ellet, Lew Price, Doris, Hunter John, George Andrew, Paul Wain, Ralph Eugene, Betty Ann, Tom Wilson, and Ted. All were born in West Virginia except the last three, who were born in Tennessee. Having heard of good sawmilling opportunities in Polk County with the Conasauga Lumber Company they had moved there in March of 1924.
Lew's first jobs were with the lumber company, and in 1926 at age twenty he was the proud engineer on the Shay engine train that brought the logs out of those mountains. That was also the year he met his future wife, Hattie Hardin, and they were married the 9th of February 1929.
The two sons of Lew and Hattie are deceased, Jack Julian died in 1982, and Franklin D. in 2006. They also had two daughters.
About 1941 Mose left the lumbering business and went into the welding business with a partner, and from there to the carpet industry.
The Mose Painter story is in his book, "I've Had a Millionaire's Fun" as told to writer, Elaine Taylor, in 1982. It is a book well worth reading for anyone interested in the early carpet industry that 'made' Dalton, Georgia. It tells of the many innovations, inventions and contributions that Mose made to that industry - much more than could ever be told in this short bio. It appears to still be available on the Internet at a very reasonable price.
The city of Dalton held Mose Painter in such high esteem that they declared the 5th of May 1981 "Mose Painter Day in the City of Dalton" and had a dinner in his honor which was attended by city official, other dignitaries across the country, his many friends and family. In the proclamation signed by Mayor Donald Ellis it stated, "Mose Painter is a true pioneer and inventor . . . and has been a moving force in the ranks of leadership in the carpet industry."
Lew was the third child of Samuel L. and Annie E. Wood Painter, in a family of eleven children - nine boys and two girls: Homer Brown, Samuel Ellet, Lew Price, Doris, Hunter John, George Andrew, Paul Wain, Ralph Eugene, Betty Ann, Tom Wilson, and Ted. All were born in West Virginia except the last three, who were born in Tennessee. Having heard of good sawmilling opportunities in Polk County with the Conasauga Lumber Company they had moved there in March of 1924.
Lew's first jobs were with the lumber company, and in 1926 at age twenty he was the proud engineer on the Shay engine train that brought the logs out of those mountains. That was also the year he met his future wife, Hattie Hardin, and they were married the 9th of February 1929.
The two sons of Lew and Hattie are deceased, Jack Julian died in 1982, and Franklin D. in 2006. They also had two daughters.
About 1941 Mose left the lumbering business and went into the welding business with a partner, and from there to the carpet industry.
The Mose Painter story is in his book, "I've Had a Millionaire's Fun" as told to writer, Elaine Taylor, in 1982. It is a book well worth reading for anyone interested in the early carpet industry that 'made' Dalton, Georgia. It tells of the many innovations, inventions and contributions that Mose made to that industry - much more than could ever be told in this short bio. It appears to still be available on the Internet at a very reasonable price.
The city of Dalton held Mose Painter in such high esteem that they declared the 5th of May 1981 "Mose Painter Day in the City of Dalton" and had a dinner in his honor which was attended by city official, other dignitaries across the country, his many friends and family. In the proclamation signed by Mayor Donald Ellis it stated, "Mose Painter is a true pioneer and inventor . . . and has been a moving force in the ranks of leadership in the carpet industry."
Lew got tagged with the nickname 'Mose' when he was a child and showed up at the local lumber mill office after walking/sledding there through deep snow. He arrived all wet, boot strings dangling, and one of the men hanging out there jokingly commented that he looked something like the local tramp-about-town named Mose, and the nickname stuck.
Lew was the third child of Samuel L. and Annie E. Wood Painter, in a family of eleven children - nine boys and two girls: Homer Brown, Samuel Ellet, Lew Price, Doris, Hunter John, George Andrew, Paul Wain, Ralph Eugene, Betty Ann, Tom Wilson, and Ted. All were born in West Virginia except the last three, who were born in Tennessee. Having heard of good sawmilling opportunities in Polk County with the Conasauga Lumber Company they had moved there in March of 1924.
Lew's first jobs were with the lumber company, and in 1926 at age twenty he was the proud engineer on the Shay engine train that brought the logs out of those mountains. That was also the year he met his future wife, Hattie Hardin, and they were married the 9th of February 1929.
The two sons of Lew and Hattie are deceased, Jack Julian died in 1982, and Franklin D. in 2006. They also had two daughters.
About 1941 Mose left the lumbering business and went into the welding business with a partner, and from there to the carpet industry.
The Mose Painter story is in his book, "I've Had a Millionaire's Fun" as told to writer, Elaine Taylor, in 1982. It is a book well worth reading for anyone interested in the early carpet industry that 'made' Dalton, Georgia. It tells of the many innovations, inventions and contributions that Mose made to that industry - much more than could ever be told in this short bio. It appears to still be available on the Internet at a very reasonable price.
The city of Dalton held Mose Painter in such high esteem that they declared the 5th of May 1981 "Mose Painter Day in the City of Dalton" and had a dinner in his honor which was attended by city official, other dignitaries across the country, his many friends and family. In the proclamation signed by Mayor Donald Ellis it stated, "Mose Painter is a true pioneer and inventor . . . and has been a moving force in the ranks of leadership in the carpet industry."
Lew was the third child of Samuel L. and Annie E. Wood Painter, in a family of eleven children - nine boys and two girls: Homer Brown, Samuel Ellet, Lew Price, Doris, Hunter John, George Andrew, Paul Wain, Ralph Eugene, Betty Ann, Tom Wilson, and Ted. All were born in West Virginia except the last three, who were born in Tennessee. Having heard of good sawmilling opportunities in Polk County with the Conasauga Lumber Company they had moved there in March of 1924.
Lew's first jobs were with the lumber company, and in 1926 at age twenty he was the proud engineer on the Shay engine train that brought the logs out of those mountains. That was also the year he met his future wife, Hattie Hardin, and they were married the 9th of February 1929.
The two sons of Lew and Hattie are deceased, Jack Julian died in 1982, and Franklin D. in 2006. They also had two daughters.
About 1941 Mose left the lumbering business and went into the welding business with a partner, and from there to the carpet industry.
The Mose Painter story is in his book, "I've Had a Millionaire's Fun" as told to writer, Elaine Taylor, in 1982. It is a book well worth reading for anyone interested in the early carpet industry that 'made' Dalton, Georgia. It tells of the many innovations, inventions and contributions that Mose made to that industry - much more than could ever be told in this short bio. It appears to still be available on the Internet at a very reasonable price.
The city of Dalton held Mose Painter in such high esteem that they declared the 5th of May 1981 "Mose Painter Day in the City of Dalton" and had a dinner in his honor which was attended by city official, other dignitaries across the country, his many friends and family. In the proclamation signed by Mayor Donald Ellis it stated, "Mose Painter is a true pioneer and inventor . . . and has been a moving force in the ranks of leadership in the carpet industry."
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