WRENTHAM'S PIONEER ENAMELEER

John E. Maintien, of Wrentham, was the first person to introduce enameling into the United States. During the 1970s Attleboro's historians knew it was a Frenchman, but got no farther, thinking if it was jewelry, it had to be Attleboro and didn't think to look in surrounding towns. John was born in Marseilles, France, on April 19 1801, came first to New York, then to Providence, Rhode Island and lived in the Plainville section of Wrentham for over thirty-five years, operating one of the three jewelry manufacturing establishments there in 1865 and lived at near-by Bacon Street until 1882. JJM