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<\/center><\/p>\nJoseph Burnett<\/a> (1820-1894) was born in Southborough<\/a> and studied chemistry<\/a> in Worcester. In 1837, he moved to Boston<\/a>, working for, and eventually partnering (in 1845) with, Theodore Metcalf<\/a>. They had a chemist shop<\/a> on Tremont Row<\/a> (now Tremont Street). A woman\u2019s request for vanilla in 1847 led him to develop a premium vanilla extract, which previously had to be imported from France. He eventually<\/a> established his own business<\/a> as a manufacturing chemist<\/a>, Joseph Burnett and Company<\/a>. Back in Southborough, Burnett<\/a> purchased land and established the Deerfoot Farms Company<\/a>, originally a dairy farm<\/a>, which later also became known for its sausages<\/a>. Burnett<\/a> also established an estate<\/a>, off Main Street in Southborough, where he built a stone mansion<\/a>. Here he lived with his wife, Josephine Cutter Burnett, and twelve children. Constructed in 1849-1850, the house<\/a> was updated in 1860. The house<\/a> was sold out of the family in 1947. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joseph Burnett (1820-1894) was born in Southborough and studied chemistry in Worcester. In 1837, he moved to Boston, working for, and eventually partnering (in 1845) with, Theodore Metcalf. They had a chemist shop on Tremont Row (now Tremont Street). A woman\u2019s request for vanilla in 1847 led him to develop a premium vanilla extract, which previously had to be imported from France. He eventually established his own business as a manufacturing chemist, Joseph Burnett and Company. Back in Southborough, Burnett purchased land and established the Deerfoot Farms Company, originally a dairy farm, which later also became known for its sausages. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56,145],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houses","category-second-empire","category-southborough","tag-mansard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7938,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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