Francis Cabot Lowell in 1813 He founded a textile company with the unusual labor power of women. Single women, being the first proper workers of the United States, they worked in the factories that Lowell built with the desire to provide support to their families and to study in the normal schools of their localities; consequently, it was the first time that women began to work and earn a salary outside their homes, which constituted greater independence than others of the same gender at a global level.