Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . isbury. Massachusetts, November 28, ?1813, and died at Hotel Brunswick, Boston, Decem-ber 25, 1887. He started in business as a countrystorekeeper at Frye village, Andover, education was limited in his early years but hewas eventually a well-educated man with a bright,open and inquiring mind and wide experience inpublic affairs. He began buying wool of the farm-ers who then kept sheep generally. About 1843 heremoved to B
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . isbury. Massachusetts, November 28, ?1813, and died at Hotel Brunswick, Boston, Decem-ber 25, 1887. He started in business as a countrystorekeeper at Frye village, Andover, education was limited in his early years but hewas eventually a well-educated man with a bright,open and inquiring mind and wide experience inpublic affairs. He began buying wool of the farm-ers who then kept sheep generally. About 1843 heremoved to Boston to extend his operations in thewool market and produce. In the successive firmsof Hilton & Gore, Williams, Hilton & Company andin Hilton, Weston & Company this energetic manrose to the rank of the greatest wool merchant inBoston, well known in all the markets of that staplethroughout the world. Every year, in the interestsof his house, he spent considerable time in successful as a merchant, public-spirited,just and sagacious, he enjoyed the esteem of the bestpeople of the city. Mr. Hilton was rated as / WORCESTER COUNTY 359 He married Esther A. , and they liave one daughter—Mrs. Catherine (Hilton) Fislce, whosurvived him. In his will JNIr. Hilton provided forthe eventual distribution of $540,000 among fifteen; religious societies, colleges and charities. Charles Fowle Hilton, son of Page Hilton andnephew of William Hilton, was a resident of White-field, Maine. He married Charlotte Roc Chapman,daughter of Benjamin and Lydia Ann (.Turnbull)s Chapman. He died in Frceport, Maine. Charleji Fowle Flilton was a lumberman by occupation, alsoj a farmer. He married (second) Eliza Spratt, otLewiston, Maine, by whom he had eight children,five of whom are Charles F. Hilton was aleading citizen of Castle Hill Plantation, in Aroos-took county, Maine. The children of Charlts Fowle: and Charlotte Roe (Chapman) Hilton were: FrancesCaroline, Charle
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