The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . Josiah Gove Claremont, bought his present bookand stationery store and has conduc-ted the same to date, increasing itsbusiness more than two-fold. is a member of the Masonic or-der and a past master of Corinthianlodge in Pittsfield. His church homeis the Universalist. He married, in 156 New Hampshires Largest Town 1869. ]Miss Rebecca B. Gove of died February 2, 1895. Whatever it may have been to oth-ers, Claremont has l)een a place ofopportunity to Peter Nolin, who maywell flat
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . Josiah Gove Claremont, bought his present bookand stationery store and has conduc-ted the same to date, increasing itsbusiness more than two-fold. is a member of the Masonic or-der and a past master of Corinthianlodge in Pittsfield. His church homeis the Universalist. He married, in 156 New Hampshires Largest Town 1869. ]Miss Rebecca B. Gove of died February 2, 1895. Whatever it may have been to oth-ers, Claremont has l)een a place ofopportunity to Peter Nolin, who maywell flatter himself that he had thewisdom to grasp the opportunity andthe skill and judgment to mold it to withal to embark in business, inwhich success was immediate and stillcontinuous. At the start IMr. Nolinand his son, Peter A., were able tohandle the business; but, as sales in-creased, it was his happy lot to havefour other sons available to assist, andthen a daughter of fine business tact. Clerical Force of P. Nolin 6? Sons — Standing, left to right: Walter A. Pugh, Harry E. Flanders, Charles Sawyer, Emille Collin, C. Martin, L. Gandreau. Sitting: Otis P. Nolin, William P. Nolin, (Manager), M. Odelia Nolin, Peter A. Nolin, and EdwardP. Nolin. his ends. Born in Iberville, P. Q.,March 5, 1845, the son of Louis andJustine (Houle) Nolin, he went toClaremont in 1865, where he has eversince resided, there being then butfive Canadian families in the place,where today there are over three hun-dred. Sound in mind and body andfull of ambition, he took up the workwhich he found at hand, l)eing em-ployed at first on farms and in papermills, laboring for others until 1895,when he opened a grocery store inthe village. During his thirty yearsin town he had married and, with hiswife, had carefully reared a children, and saved the where- joined the force. In 1907 the businesswas incorporated under the name ofPeter Nolin & Sons. IMr. Nolin ispresident and the son, W
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