. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. (^JU-ti. ^/-^4t7~, HISTORY OF SOUTH ABINGTON. 517 district .school of liis Dative town, supplemented bysix months at an academy at Bolton, Mass. Whentwelve years old he entered the store of his uncle atHanover, and stayed there some years, until, uponthe death of an older brother, his services were re-quired at home by his father, where he remaineduntil he was twenty-one. During this time, however,he taught school several winter terms at East Abiug-ton and Hanover. In 1835 he com
. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. (^JU-ti. ^/-^4t7~, HISTORY OF SOUTH ABINGTON. 517 district .school of liis Dative town, supplemented bysix months at an academy at Bolton, Mass. Whentwelve years old he entered the store of his uncle atHanover, and stayed there some years, until, uponthe death of an older brother, his services were re-quired at home by his father, where he remaineduntil he was twenty-one. During this time, however,he taught school several winter terms at East Abiug-ton and Hanover. In 1835 he commenced the manu-facture of boots and shoes in company with SamuelBlake, Jr. (his brother-in-law), with the firm-nameof Stetson & Blake. The manufacture of boots andshoes, which originated in Abington, was then in itsinfancy, and this was one of the few first firms. Theycommenced their commercial career by manufacturingfor Amasa Walker & Co., oue of the oldest estab-lished firms in Boston, and whose successors still con-tinue the business. After a few years the firm ofStetson & Blake dissolved, and
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