. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . , which he has since con-ducted in association with his son, Franklin F. Read, Jr. Now he de-votes his time to collecting rents and taking care of estates. Since 1880he has been the head of the well-known firm of Read & Burns, icedealers, which each winter puts up some six thousand tons of ice tosupply its numerous patrons. It keeps six men steadily employed andfor much of the time has from twenty to thirty men assisting. Thefirm first shipped ice to New York from its houses both on Ono
. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . , which he has since con-ducted in association with his son, Franklin F. Read, Jr. Now he de-votes his time to collecting rents and taking care of estates. Since 1880he has been the head of the well-known firm of Read & Burns, icedealers, which each winter puts up some six thousand tons of ice tosupply its numerous patrons. It keeps six men steadily employed andfor much of the time has from twenty to thirty men assisting. Thefirm first shipped ice to New York from its houses both on Onota andSilver Lakes. For years this company had the largest business of itskind in western Massachusetts. Mr. Read belongs to Mystic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,and Berkshire Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; to Berkshire Lodge, Inde-pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed all the chairs,and of which he has been the treasurer and its delegate to the grandlodge; to the encampment, in which he has filled all the offices, andis now the treasurer; and to the Knights of- Pvthias, of which he is.
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