. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. John T. Grey, Retired Grower of Stafford Springs, N. J. By Charles A. Doehlert N. J. Cran. & Blue. Research Lab. (Ed. Note. At the time of the retirement of John Grey in the autumn of 1954, the author of this account and Mr. P. E. Marucci of the New Jersey laboratory were dinner guests of. Mr. and Mrs. Grey. They got into the mood of reminiscing. The ac- counts which Mr. Grey related and the biography of Mr. Grey's great-grandfather were so inter- esting that Mr. Doehlert took some notes which are the basis of this article.) Jo
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. John T. Grey, Retired Grower of Stafford Springs, N. J. By Charles A. Doehlert N. J. Cran. & Blue. Research Lab. (Ed. Note. At the time of the retirement of John Grey in the autumn of 1954, the author of this account and Mr. P. E. Marucci of the New Jersey laboratory were dinner guests of. Mr. and Mrs. Grey. They got into the mood of reminiscing. The ac- counts which Mr. Grey related and the biography of Mr. Grey's great-grandfather were so inter- esting that Mr. Doehlert took some notes which are the basis of this article.) John Grey and his grandfather. James Grey, were both born at No. 30 Varick Street, Manhattan; the grandfather in 1821 and the grandson on Oct. 12, 1884. The grandparents had one child, Tracy. James Grey and his family moved to New Jersey to make their home at the North American Phalanx, which was a co-operative agricul- tural colony supported vigorously by Horace Greely. A photograph of the central buildingr and mem- bers of the is shown in the May, 1952, issue of the Farm Service News of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. Grandfather Grey was an archi- tect in Elizabeth. His wife's par- ents were Rev. John and Mary Ellen French. Great-grandfather French was a Universaliit minis- ter. He wrote an extremely in- teresting autobiography. It is a well written joui-nal full of human interest. He was probably the leading minister in the Phalanx Colony. John Grey's father, Tracy, was born on Jan. 31, 1856, at the Phalanx Colony. John's father in later years be- came a partner with French & Company, who were commission men and produce speculators in New York City, and he made his home in Brooklyn, for most of his life. French & Company handled Massachusetts' cranberries on commission and also bought cran- berries in New Jersey. They cleaned the berries and packed them for market. John Grey often worked for French & Company as a boy. Later on he was in charge o
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