Mary "Mollie" Avery

ID: 548 ~ Source: Sprague Log. Vol. 1 No. 1. 1938.
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Mary “Mollie” Avery, Sprague’s first paid employee. She took over doing paperwork from Mrs. Florence Sprague as the Spragues started what would grow to be a major company from the basement of their home. She also served as a personal secretary to Robert C. Sprague for thirty-five years.

This file appears in: Working for a Lifetime at Sprague

By Hannah Soucy
What became an internationally-renowned company based in the Berkshires started as the work of just three people in the kitchen of a home in Quincy, MA more than ninety years ago.