Short answers, pulled from the story.
Lydia Taft, wife of wealthy Uxbridge landowner Josiah Taft, voted in the 1756 Uxbridge town meeting, recorded as the first instance of a colonial woman voting in America. Uxbridge local government later also approved Massachusetts's first women jurors, in defiance of the state Secretary of State.
Daniel Day built Uxbridge's first woolen mill in 1809, and by 1855 the town's 560 workers produced two and a half million yards of cloth annually. Uxbridge reached a peak of over twenty mills and became known for cashmere wool, earning recognition as a prominent center of the American Industrial Revolution.
"Uxbridge Blue" is the name given to the shade of the first United States Air Force dress uniform, which was manufactured by Bachman-Uxbridge. The same company also produced US Army uniforms for the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the nurse corps.
Eugene A. Ford, a Mississippi native who lived in Uxbridge in the early 1900s, developed IBM's first laboratory there and served as IBM's first chief engineer. Thomas J. Watson later moved Ford and his family to New York, but the company's early engineering work was rooted in Uxbridge.
Uxbridge was one of the earliest centers for rural anti-slavery engagement in America. Effingham Capron and his spouse led a local anti-slavery society of 450 members, and Brister Pierce, a formerly enslaved man from Uxbridge, signed an 1835 petition to Congress calling for abolition in the District of Columbia. Prominent abolitionists Abby Kelley Foster and Effingham Capron were both members of the local Friends Meetinghouse.
Deborah Sampson enlisted in the American Revolution under the alias Robert Shurtlieff of Uxbridge, posing as a male soldier to fight in the war. Her story is one of several notable Revolutionary-era connections to Uxbridge, which also counted Seth Reed, a Bunker Hill veteran, among its residents.