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Lemnel North, of Berlin, father of John Good- rich North, was born May 6, 1786, and was a typical New Englander of his day. He was one of twelve children. When he was a little boy his father moved to Meredith, N. Y., where he built a house and cleared up land. They had to send two miles to get flour, and to have meal ground. Lemuel, then a boy about eight years old, was sent with the grist, on horseback, a hag with corn on one side, and rye on the other. He was afraid, for the road was through the woods. At night they went upstairs to sleep, pulling the ladder by which they climbed up, ! after them, for fear of wolves. "Aunt Lucy," Lem- Mr. North was closely identified with the phil- anthropic and religious life of New Haven. In his younger days he was very active in Sunday- school and temperance work throughout the State of Connecticut, being 'a prominent officer in the Sons of Temperance. For many years he was superintendent of Mission Sunday-schools, notably that of "Scattergood," which did a unique and suc- uel's sister, said she often drove the wolves away from the door. Lemuel returned to Berlin to live with his grandfather, Jedediah North. He had no opportunity for education. At the death of the grandfather, the property was divided among the children; each one had a strip of land running up over the hill, "the Ledge." as they used to call it. Lemuel bought up all the shares and owned the , cessful work for neglected street children. He was
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a friend of, and welcome visitor at the New Haven Orphan Asylum. Children everywhere delighted to have him address them. He gave the colored people of New Haven, as trustees of their church, valuable assistance and counsel. He was active in the Aboli- tion movement before the Civil war, and most pa- triotic in all the trying events of that time. During the last years of his life he was lay chaplain at the New Haven jail, where he helped many men to a better life. He was made trial justice in Milford. and waged a vigorous war against vice in every form. Mr. North was an officer in the Governor's Horse Guards. In politics he was a Whig and Re- publican.
Mr. North was married May 31, 1843, to Eliza- beth Dickinson, who was born in New Haven, Dec. 8, 1821, a daughter of Raphael Dickinson ( who was born Feb. 6, 1781, and died Feb. 26, 1837) and his wife, Nancy McNeil ( who was born June 4, 1783, and died Feb. 9, 1833). Mrs. . Nancy ( McNeil) Dickinson was a daughter of William McNeil, who graduated from Yale and became a civil engineer, but spent his later years as a sailor and sea captain. To Mr. and Mrs. John G. North were born five chil- dren : Mary Goodrich, John Curtis, Sarah Eliza- beth, Edward Collins and Cornelia Chatterton. Of these, John C. is in the insurance business in New Haven; he married Jessie Brinkerhoff, of Brook- lyn, N. Y. Edward C. is in the same line in Bos- ton ; he married Marion Tilton. Sarah E. married Stanley P. Warren, M. D., a graduate of Yale, and they now live in Portland, Maine. Mary G. married Rev. Erastus Blakeslee, a graduate of Yale, and lives in Brookline, Mass .; Rev. Mr. Blakeslee was a soldier in the Civil war, colonel of the Ist Con- necticut Cavalry, and brevet brigadier general of volunteers. Cornelia C. married Prof. Samuel T. Dutton, of Columbia University, who at one time was superintendent of schools in New Haven and in Brookline. In religion all the family have long been associated with the Congregational Church.
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In 1887 Mr. North moved to Milford, Conn., where he had a beautiful home, which was a great delight to him, for he was always fond of the beauti- ful in nature. He died very suddenly from apo- plexy at his home, March 9. 1892. Mr. North was never so happy as when doing a kindness, or help- ing some one out of difficulty. This spirit was shown most abundantly in his own home. His chil- dren grew up in an atmosphere of generous love. He used often to say, "I want to give my children a happy childhood." Their memories of him and their early home will always be most precious to them. It was always a place to which they were most cordially welcomed after they had left it for homes of their own. In all their trials he was most ready to listen with sympathetic ear, and, if possible, with ready aid. The home was also one of Christian nurture. As one who knew him well in his home wrote at the time of his death, "What a home for
those children to go out from, an inspiration for their homes and lives, stronger than precept. A blessing on children and children's children must certainly rest and follow them all their lives."
The DICKINSON Family, to which Mrs. John G. North belongs, has an authentic history that runs back in England to a period beyond 1475. Thomas Dickinson, who was a native of Abingdon, Eng- land, went about 1670, to Ayrshire, Scotland, where he had three sons, Thomas, Josiah and Moses.
Moses Dickinson, born in Ayrshire, came to Boston, from which point he went to Deerfield, Mass., about 1690.
David Ebenezer Dickinson, son of Moses, mar- ried Sarah Winslow, the great-granddaughter of Gov. Winslow.
Oliver Dickinson, son of David Ebenezer, grew to manhood, and married Mary Parmalee.
Oliver Dickinson, son of Oliver, was born July 10, 1757, in Litchfield, Conn., and died March 23, 1847. On June II, 1778, he married Anna Landon. He served in the Revolutionary army, in which he made a noble record as a gallant soldier and a pa- triotic citizen. He was in the army from 1776 to 1781.
Raphael Dickinson, second son of Oliver, was born Feb. 6, 1781, and died Feb. 26, 1837. He mar- ried Nancy McNeil Feb. 25, 1805, and their daugh- ter Elizabeth was married to John G. North, as noted above. He was a master builder, and did ex- cellent work. In 1808, he climbed to the top of Trin- ity church, and blackened the crown on the weather- vane, which had just been re-gilded, in opposition to the wishes of American citizens who thought the crown no longer appropriate, since we were no longer under English rule.
Leonard A. Dickinson, a son of Raphael, and a brother of Mrs. Elizabeth North, became one of the noted citizens of New Haven. In 1861 he enlisted in the 12th Conn. V. I., and the same year was made captain of Company C, of that regiment. He served throughout the war, and returning to Hart- ford was made local agent of the _Etna Fire In- surance Company, in which capacity he served thirty-two years. For three years he was quarter- master on the staff of Gov. Jewell, and for four years he was postmaster at Hartford. Fraternally he was active in Masonry; in the Grand Army he was past commander of the Department of Con- necticut, and treasurer of the Soldiers Home at Noroton, Connecticut.
Leonard A. Dickinson died Jan. 27, 1901, and his funeral services were very largely attended, by the public generally as well as by the Grand Army of the Republic and the insurance agencies with which he had been so long and intimately associ- ated. Seldom has a man passed into the Great Be- vond whose loss has been so deeply and generally felt. Of high character, unimpeachable integrity and a winning personality, he had a host of friends
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who knew him as a man of honor and of business ability beyond the average, whose useful life and many virtues shed honor upon the State.
The McNEIL Family, of which the mother of Mrs. North was a member, has a history in Con- necticut that begins with the purchase of land by Archibald McNeil at Branford, about 1735. At the same time he married Mary, a daughter of Samuel Russell, and the widow of Benjamin Fenn. He died about 1753, leaving three sons, John, Sam- uel and Archibald.
Archibald McNeil was born Sept. 20, 1736, at Branford, and May 2, 1758, married Sarah Clark, of Derby. They had a son, William, born May 13, 1759, in New Haven, who was graduated from Yale in 1777. He was a gunner on the privateer "Mar- quis De Lafayette" from Jan. 30, 1782, to Aug. 13, 1783. On Sept. 25, 1779. he married Huldah Au- gur in New Haven, and they had six children: William, John, Henry, Maria, Nancy and Abra- ham Archibald. Of these, Nancy married Raphael Dickinson, as noted above.
HICKOX. The Hickox family of Durham, Conn., where lived for generations the ancestors of William A. Hickox, a substantial citizen and business man of Meriden, where for years he has been superintendent of the advertising department of the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Co., is one of the old Colonial families of Connecticut.
Mr. Hickox is a descendant in the eighth gen- eration from William Hickok Hickoks, or Hickox, an early settler and original proprietor of Farm- ington, Conn., his lineage being through Sergeant Sanmel, Joseph, Joseph (2), Joseph (3), Daniel and Charles Hickox.
(II) Sergeant Samuel Hickox, son of William of Farmington, was early in that town, his name appearing on the list of proprietors of the town in 1672. He was one of the original thirty, and is be- lieved to have been one of the first company of men that went to Waterbury. He early laid out five acres of land along the stream named for him, "Hickox Brook." His wife was Hannah, and, ac- cording to an inventory taken Feb. 28, 1694-95, his children were: Samuel, aged twenty-six ; Hannah, twenty-four; William, twenty-two; Thomas, twen- ty; Joseph, seventeen; Mary, fourteen; Elizabeth, twelve; Stephen. eleven: Benjamin, nine; Mercy, six : and Ebenezer, two. Sergeant Hickox held a number of town offices and was one of the leading men of the settlement.
(III) Joseph Hickox, son of Sergeant Samuel, born in 1678, married Feb. 8. 1699, or 1700, Eliza- beth, daughter of Joseph Gaylord, Sr. He was ac- cepted as a bachelor proprietor of Waterbury in 1699, was chimney viewer in 1701 and 1703. . He removed, after the births of two of his children, Joseph and Hannah, at Waterbury, with the Gay- lords to Durliam, Conn. He was a carpenter by occupation, was one of the original proprietors of | He was for years a member of the M. E. Church
Durham in 1708, and on the organization of the town government in 1706, he became the first town clerk. He died in 1725.
(IV) Joseph Hickox (2), son of Joseph, born in Waterbury, about 1701, married about 1722, Sarah ( surname not given), and among their chil- dren were: Jerusha, baptized in 1723; Elizabeth, baptized in 1725; Joseph, baptized in 1729; Sarah, baptized in 1731; Jamies, baptized in 1733; and Hannah, baptized in 1738.
(V) Joseph Hickox (3), son of Joseph (2), baptized in Durham, April 6, 1729, married Dec. 8, 1748, Martha Wilcox, and their children were: Martha, baptized May 27, 1750; James, baptized in 1751; William, baptized Aug. 21, 1753; Rhoda, baptized in September, 1755; Joseph, baptized July 15, 1757 ; Darius, baptized March 11, 1759; Reuben, baptized Dec. 28, 1760: Catherine, baptized July 19, 1763; Giles, baptized April 28, 1765; Daniel, bap- tized July 10, 1768; Rachel, baptized July 13, 1768; and Asa, baptized April 1, 1773. It is a family tradition that Joseph Hickox (3) made fire arms for service in the Revolution, and that he himself was out in the service, and that some of the guns were among those deposited in the Atheneum at Hartford.
(VI) Daniel Hickox, son of Joseph (3). bap- tized July 10, 1768, married Jerusha Camp, and Joy, Charles, Leander, Sophronia and Charlotte. among their children were: Henry, Daniel, Reuben, Daniel Hickox was a farmer of Durham. A Capt. Daniel Hickock was in command of a company of Connecticut Militia, Horse Travel, 16th regiment, under Col. Nehemiah Beardsley, that went on an expedition to Fairfield and Danbury July 9. 1779, and his name is on the pay-roll for services in the main army at, or near, Peekskill. A James and Dr. Nathaniel Hickock were members of Capt. Samuel Camp's Company, Horse Travel, Col. Cook's regiment, called for the relief of New Haven and Fairfield July 5 and 8, 1779. Silas Hicck's name appears on the pay roll of Capt. Bull's Company of Light Horse, under Maj. Sheldon, when it was or- dered to New York in July, 1776.
(VII) Charles Hickox, son of Daniel. born in Durham, in 1800, married in 1842, Hannah, daugh- ter of James Fowler, of North Guilford, Conn .- a sketch of whose family appears elsewhere-and four children were born to them, namely: John, who died in infancy; Anna H., who is now the widow of the late Albert M. Cooley, of Middlefield, Conn. ; Charles A., who married Sarah, daughter of Charles Warner and is a resident of Hartford; and William A., of Meriden. Charles Hickox, the father of this family, was by occupation in his early life, a shoe- maker and farmer, working at the bench through the winter season. Later in life he followed paint- ing in connection with farming. He was well in- formed and hell a number of public trusts in his town, among them the office of justice of the peace.
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and its choirmaster. He was a useful citizen, and commanded the respect and esteem of the com- munity. His political affiliations were with the Re- publican party. He died in Durham, Oct. 28, 1890, and his wife passed away Oct. 5, 1891. She, too, was identified with the M. E. Church at Durham.
(VIII) WILLIAM A. HICKOX, son of Charles, born Jan. 14, 1855, married in Durham, Conn., June 23, 1881, Sarah Louise Newton, and their only child, Frederick Arthur, born Feb. 25, 1882, died in Durham Sept. 4, 1883.
Mr. Hickox received his elementary education in the public schools of Durham, then began a busi- ness career at employment in a meat market, thence after a year entering the grocery store of L. M. and O. Leach at Durham. Here he continued for a period of eight years. Following this experience, he went in 1879 to Meriden, and there was em- ployed in the dry-goods house of Ives, Upham & Rand. Two years later he left these gentlemen, and entered the employ of the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Co., which establishment has since been his business home, and where he has charge of the advertising department.
Fraternally, Mr. Hickox is a member of Merid- ian Lodge, No. 77. F. & A. M .; of Keystone Chap- ter, No. 27, R. A. M .; and Alfred Hall Council, No. 1423, Royal Arcanum. He is a Republican in political views, and he and his wife attend the Congregational Church. Mrs. Hickox is a mem- ber of Ruth Hart Chapter, Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution.
NEWTON. Mrs. Sarah Louise ( Newton) Hick- ox is a descendant in the eighth generation from Rev. Roger Newton, of Farmington, and. Milford, Conn., her lineage being through-,Abner, Burwell, Abner (2), Elisha and Israel C. Newton.
(I) Rev. Roger Newton the first minister of the Church at Farmington, Conn., and a member at its organization, Oct. 15, 1652. He was married at Hartford to Mary, eldest daughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker, who died Feb. 4. 1676. Rev. Newton was dismissed from the church in 1657, went to Boston and sailed for England. On his return he was installed pastor of the church at Milford, Conn .. Aug. 22, 1660, and died June 7, 1683. In his will he mentioned children as follows: Roger, Susanna, John, Ezekiel, Sarah, Alice and Mary. He had a son Daniel, who was born in 1646. Rev. Roger Newton was the second pastor of the Milford Church, following Rev. Peter Prudden, and served it for twenty-two years.
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(III) Abner Newton, grandson of Rev. Roger of Farmington and Milford, became one of the early settlers of Durham, Conn., where were baptized several of his children, namely: Abner and John in 1726; Burwell in 1720: Samuel in 1732; and Roger in 1737. His wife's nimte was Mary. Of the children Rev. Roger, D. D, was liberally edu- cated at Yale College (class of 1758), and for up-
wards of fifty years was pastor of the Congrega- tional Church in Greenfield, Mass., and his son Roger was graduated from Yale College in 1785.
(IV) Burwell Newton, son of Abner and Mary, baptized in 1729, married Eunice (surname not given), and their children baptized in Durham were: Abiather, in 1754; Burwell, in 1756; Mary, in 1759; Submit, in 1702; Abner and Roger ( twins) in 1705; Roger (again ) in 1768; and Isaac in 1770. A Burwell Newton, and the only one bearing that Christian name in a Connecticut regiment so far as known to us, is on the roll of Capt. Norton's com- pany, Horse Travel, Thaddeus Cook's regiment, Tenth Connecticut Militia, which went on the call for relief to New Haven July 5, 1779, and Fairfield July 8, of that same year, and it is likely that it was the father or son of this family.
(V) Abner Newton, son of Burwell, born Dec. 27, 1764, married and had children: Elisha, Ab- ner, Horace, Gaylord, R. Watson, Content and Parnell (An Abner Newton, of Durham, Conn., was a soldier in the War of 1812, a member of a cavalry company).
(VI) Elisha Newton, son of Abner, married Sally Camp.
(VII) Israel C. Newton, son of Elisha, born March 23, 1822, in Durham, married April 18, 1849, Clarissa T. Sill, daughter of Micah Sill, of Hart- ford and Wethersfield, and their children were: William Camp; Frederick Sill, of Durham, Conn .; Frank Bowman, of Middlefield, Conn .: Sarah Louise, of Meriden, Conn., the wife of William A. Hickox; Isaac, who died in infancy; and Harriet Tucker, who died in childhood. Israel C. Newton, the father of this family, passed a life of useful citi- zenship in his native town where he bore the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. He died June 1, 1890.
HON. GEORGE BRICKELL SPENCER, manufacturer of Guilford, and a man of high stand- ing in that community, where his ancestors have lived for over two hundred years, closely identified with the town's interests, is descended from one of the old Colonial families of New England.
This Spencer family was first represented in America by five brothers, who came from England, namely: William, who located in Newtown, Con- cord and Hartford; Sergt. Thomas (ancestor of George B.), who located in Newtown ( Cambridge) and Hartford: Gerard, who settled at Haddam; Michael, who located at Lynn; and John, who died without heirs. Of these brothers, Michael is shown by will to have been a legatee of Richard Spencer, of London, England.
(I) Sergt. Thomas Spencer, was at Cambridge in 1633, and in 1637, removed to Hartford, where he was one of the original proprietors in 1639. He was one of the prominent public men of the place, and held various public offices, among them those of constable, surveyor of highways and sergeant of
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the train band. He married ( second) Sarah, only child of Nathaniel Bearding, of Hartford. He died Sept. 11, 1687. Of his fourteen children we have mention of (2) Sarah ( Mrs. Brading), (6) Oba- diah, (7) Thomas, (8) Samuel, (9) Jared, (10) Sarah ( who married Thomas Huxley), (II) Eliza- beth ( who married Samuel Andrews), (12) Han- nah, (13) Mercy, and ( 14) Martha ( who married Samuel Benton. )
(II) Obadiah Spencer, son of Sergt. Thomas, the emigrant, married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Desborough, of Hartford, and died in 1712. Their children were: Obadiah was the next in line of descent to George B. : Thomas married Esther An- drews; Samuel married Deborah Beckley; Eben- ezer married Mary Booth; John married Mary Smith; Desborough married Abigail Elmer : Mary married a Mr. King.
(III) Obadiah Spencer, of Hartford, born there in 1666, died Aug. 22, 1741. He and his wife Ruth had children: Obadiah, born June 29, 1699; Ste- phen, who is mentioned below; Jonathan, born March 15, 1704; Daniel, born June 10, 1705 ; Eben- ezer ; Mehitabel, who married Samuel Bishop; and Caleb, born April 26, 1709.
(IV) Stephen Spencer, son of Obadiah (2), was born March 16, 1702, in Hartford, and died Sept. 6, 1760. When quite young he ran away from home, and went to Guilford, where his sister Mehit- abel lived. On Nov. 5, 1725, he married Obedience Bradley, who was born Dec. 9, 1705, and died Aug. 13, 1759. Their children: Obedience married J. Parmelee, and died June 9, 1750; Ruth married Timothy Luddington ; Hannah, born Sept. 25, 1728, died. Oct. 24, 1736; Stephen, born Jan. 22, 1731, died Nov. II, 1756; Obadiah, born June 12, 1733, died Oct. 25, 1736; Mark, born April 12, 1738, mar- ried Merrit Stone ; Catherine, born in 1740, married Miles Stone; Hannah (2), born Aug. 28, 1743, married Darius Collins, and died Oct. 30, 1799; Obadiah (2), born Oct. 16, 1745, married Mindwell Griffing, and died in 1789; Christopher was the great-grandfather of George B. Spencer.
(V) Christopher Spencer, born March 6, 1748, died March 26, 1796. On May 8, 1767, he married Olive Stowe, who was born Sept. 1, 1746, and died Oct. 3, 1783. His second marriage was to Widow : Mary Stowe. Children: Nancy, born Sept. 16, 1768, died Sept. 15, 1769; Uriah, born March 4, 1770, married Deborah Elliott; Nancy (2), born March 31, 1772, married Joseph Wells, and died Aug. 8, 1854: Christopher, born Feb. 6, 1774, mar- ried Temperance Tuttle : Samuel is mentioned be- low ; Olive, born in 1778, died April 6, 1798; Ach- sah, born in 1780, died May 11, 1808; Stephen was born June 28, 1785 ; Alanson, born March 28, 1787, married Ann Rose ; Harvey, born Feb. 6, 1793, died Sept. 15, 1793; Harvey (2), born April 6, 1795, married Farny Sharpe. N ... 15, 1838.
(VI) Samuel Spencer, son of Christopher, born June 10, 1775, died March 16, 1871, in Guilford.
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On Oct. 5, 1801, he married. Elizabeth Tuttle, who was born June 13, 1781, daughter of Daniel Tuttle, and died Oct. 17, 1873. Children: Isaac Stowe, the father of George B., is mentioned below ; Sam- uel Christopher, born May 1, 1806, married Jane Loomis ; James, born Dec. 1, 1808, married Emeline Butler, and died May 28, 1874; Olive, born Feb. 27, 1810, married Samuel C. Johnson; Eliza, born March 23, 1812. married George A. Foote ; Daniel, born March 12, 1814, married Louisa Mix, and died April 27, 1881 ; Nancy, born Dec. 21, 1815, married U. N. Parmelee, and died June 28, 1881 ; Henry, born Sept. 2. 1820, married Sara A. Elliott.
(VII) Isaac Stowe Spencer, son of Samuel, and the father of George B., of Guilford, was born April 17, 1801. in Guilford, and died Oct. 22, 1866. He married Charlotte Brickell, daughter of George and Rachel Brickell, of Clarkstown, Rockland Co., N. Y. She was born in 1802, and died April 20, 1885. They had children as follows : Elizabeth was born Aug. 10, 1830. Christopher, born Oct. II, 1831, is in business with his brother, George B., in Guilford; he married Jane Collins. James Ed- win, born Sept. 20, 1836, is a manufacturer of spectacles in New York City, his headquarters be- ing at No. 16 Maiden Lane; he married Angeline Fenn. Caroline Brickell and Emeline Butler, twins, were born Sept. 13, 1838; the former married Enos A. Hale, and the latter Edwin A. Fowler. George B. was born June 20, 1841. John Stowe, born April 6, 1845, is engaged in the manufacture of spectacles in connection with his brother James E., in New York City ; his wife's name was Anna.
Mrs. Charlotte ( Brickell) Spencer was of Dutch extraction. Her great-grandfather, Hardenburg, came to the United States from Holland. His daughter Catherine Hardenburg, married James Linkletter, and they had two daughters, Rachel and Sally. Rachel Linkletter married George Brickell, and they had six children: Caroline, who married Joseph Peterson ; Margaret, who married James Blauvelt, and after his death became the wife of Levi Abrams ; Charlotte, the wife of Isaac S. Spen- cer ; John ; Thomas; and James. Sally Linkletter married Benjamin Tuttle, and six children were born to them: Mary Ann (Gager), Feb. 10, 1807; Temperance ( Tuttle), Aug. 4, 1813; Samuel, March 3, 1815; Charlotte ( Wheeler), Aug. 5. 1817; Caro- line (Munger ), April 1, 1819; Daniel, Oct. 29, 1821.
Soon after 1851 what was then the Nausup Foundry and machine shop, the outgrowth, of a foundry established at Guilford in 1847, by Oliver B. Fowler, was purchased by Isaac Stowe Spencer, and his son Christopher. Subsequently another son, George B. Spencer, was added to the firm, which has been known as I. S. Spencer's Sons since the death of the father in 1866. In 1860 the Spencer brothers erected a brick foundry 60x100 feet, in which was a five-ton cupola ; in 1880 they enlarged the works and put in a seven-ton cupola; and again, in 1883, the addition of a brass foundry was
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made. Steam power was first applied in the plant in 1872. There is manufactured at these works a complete line of grey iron castings, such as legs for school desks, pedestals for lamps, parts of lock castings, and light castings. In addition the Spen- cers produce a large number of their celebrated family scales, and do a large business in brass cast- ings. The establishment has long been prosperous, and affords remunerative employment to over one hundred of the citizens of the town. The Messrs. Spencer have carried on the business with great prudence and energy, and to the great advantage of the town. These gentlemen have been promi- nently identified with the growth and improvement of Guilford from their very boyhood. Christopher was one of the founders and first president of the Guilford Enterprise Co., a manufacturing concern of considerable size and importance to Guilford along in the 'seventies and 'eighties, while George B. has been before the public in various connec- tions for many years. Both brothers are useful citizens.
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