No. 3612 Image of the factory comes from the 1890 Bird’s-Eye View of Lower Mills
Ariel M. Cain was born in 1845 in Dorchester. He served in the Civil War, 1861 to 1865, in the 42nd Regiment of the Massachusetts Infantry. In 1870, Ariel was working with his father and his brother, all as cabinetmakers, an occupation he continued to pursue for the next thirty years. His father died in 1883, but subsequent City directories in which Ariel was listed indicate that the business continued as M.W. Cain and Son, with offices in Boston and the factory on Temple Street in Lower Mills. By the 1900 U.S. Census, Ariel was not listed as a manufacturer of furniture or with any other occupation. In 1898 had advertised his factory “to let.” A tenant leased the building, but a few years later (1904) a serious fire left the building in ruins; it had been occupied by a business that manufactured rubber cement.
No. 3751 1894 atlas.