Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . ming disinclined to adoptthat vocation he took up merchant tailoring under his father. The lat-ter, desirous of equipping the former to the best possible business advan-tage, sent Adolph in i88t to Dresden. Saxony, to enter what was at thattime the best cutting school in Europe. But the son cherished anotherambition, that of seeking his fortune in America, and he did not stop inhis westward journey until the shores of the new world had been reached. For two years he was employed in the ci
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . ming disinclined to adoptthat vocation he took up merchant tailoring under his father. The lat-ter, desirous of equipping the former to the best possible business advan-tage, sent Adolph in i88t to Dresden. Saxony, to enter what was at thattime the best cutting school in Europe. But the son cherished anotherambition, that of seeking his fortune in America, and he did not stop inhis westward journey until the shores of the new world had been reached. For two years he was employed in the city of New York, and thefollowing two years in Cincinnati. Ohio. From t886 to 1895 he washead cutter for the merchant tailoring establishment of Strauss , Kentucky, and in 1896 came to Pittsfield to purchase a halfinterest in the merchant tailoring department of J- P. Newman & Sons,an association which continued for three years, when Mr. Feiner pur-chased the Newman Sons interest and removed the merchant tailoringbusiness to the store which he has since continued to occupy. No. 40. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 38T North street. Mr. Feiner has the distinction of l^eing the only merchantin liis hne in the county seat who devotes a store to Imsiness purposes. Mr. Feiner is a member of tlie Masonic fraternity and Knights ofP}-thias. He finds his pleasantest pastime with his books, and has one ofthe best selected lihraries in Pittsfield. AMOS SMITH. Amos Smith, deceased, for many years one of the extensive landowners and prominent citizens of Dalton, Berkshire county, Massa-chusetts, was one of the direct descendants of Amos Smith, who wasborn in Ashford, Connecticut, November 21, 1758, was united in mar-riage to Ame Chaffee of Ashford, on May 18, 1779, and subsequentlysettled in the town of Dalton. Six children were the result of thismarriage, viz: Alvah, Ahner, David, Amos, Jr., Ame, and Avis. OnMarch 19, 1801, Ame (Chaffee) Smith, aged forty-two years, diedand May 5, 1802, A
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