Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . tal in organ-izing the Houston Narcotic Cure Co., for inebriates,with a capital of $100,000, and at the meeting of thedirectors was elected general manager of the com-pany. The business management of this was sosuccessful that Mr. Palmer was made general man-ager of all the Houston Institutes in the New Eng-land States. In 1896 Everett O. Wood, a popular and hon-ored Danielson, entered i
Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . tal in organ-izing the Houston Narcotic Cure Co., for inebriates,with a capital of $100,000, and at the meeting of thedirectors was elected general manager of the com-pany. The business management of this was sosuccessful that Mr. Palmer was made general man-ager of all the Houston Institutes in the New Eng-land States. In 1896 Everett O. Wood, a popular and hon-ored Danielson, entered into equal part-nership with Mr. Palmer in the real-estate business,and they have built up one of the largest agenciesin eastern Connecticut. Mr. Palmers latest success, in which he takesenthusiastic interest and justifiable pride is as presi-dent of the Occidental Development Co., whichmay be best described in the words of an articlewhich was reprinted in the Windham CountyTranscript, of Danielson, Conn., Oct. 24, 1901. The Occidental Development Company was or-ganized Aug. 26, 1809, with but one group of 1 1^ i^^^^^H 1 ? ^ .^ i J A. fl w ^ P 1 i. 5^ 1 I -_,- i 1 i4 ! 1 v.* •^vhHb r 1- ^. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 293 claims, situated near Idaho Springs, and known astlie Harrisburg group. Work was begun Septem-ber, 1899, with but three workmen at the mines,E. W. Redding and his two sons. The followingDecember the Fraction group was purchased, nearIdaho Springs, and development work October, 1900, Manager Redding began nego-tiations to secure the now famous coal lands, andduring the fall and winter located and laid claimto 720 acres of Government land, which, after care-ful survey, the company purchased. At the sametime he also located and purchased forty acres ofuranium ground in Montrose county, Colo., alsosome copper claims in the same locality. Duringthe spring of 1901 he secured the Belle of Granite,near These were all added to the hold-in
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