. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. nd Company, ageneral store supplying the wants of customers from a cambricneedle to a log chain. He became a junior partner in 1853 underthe firm name of Fletcher and Norton. He continued the businessin this firm till the death of Mr. Fletcher in 1876. He then carriedon the store for ten years and sold out in 1886. This store was oneof long standing, at first embracing every variety of article andlater, laying aside dry goods and groceries, it confined itself tohardware and paints and oil
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. nd Company, ageneral store supplying the wants of customers from a cambricneedle to a log chain. He became a junior partner in 1853 underthe firm name of Fletcher and Norton. He continued the businessin this firm till the death of Mr. Fletcher in 1876. He then carriedon the store for ten years and sold out in 1886. This store was oneof long standing, at first embracing every variety of article andlater, laying aside dry goods and groceries, it confined itself tohardware and paints and oils. This long experience in mercantile affairs prepared Mr. Nortonto oversee and direct many forms of business, and his services werein general demand at Westfield. He became director and treasurerof the Hampden Cigar Company, in 1857, for two years, and actedfor several years as director of the American Whip was president and director of the United States Whip Companyfor the first three years after its organization in 1893. He waspresident and director of the Westfield Gas Light Company for. ,-,; e,^-y,a^, ^Sra Jvry 4jtfk LEWIS RUFUS NORTON several years; and was chosen by the Legislature as State directorof the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, from 1874 to was director of the Hampden National Bank, and its presidentfor nineteen years. He was trustee of the Woronoco Savings Bank,and acted on its finance committee from its organization in was also trustee and treasurer of the Westfield Academy for aperiod of ten years. Mr. Norton during the years 1862, 1872 and 1873 was a memberof the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and previous tothis, from 1856 to 1862 served as town treasurer and collector ofWestfield. Mr. Norton was married to Cynthia Marie Antoinette Whit-man, daughter of A. B. and Annie B. Whitman, of child, Carrie Whitman Norton, was born of this Norton died November 8, 1855. His second marriage tookplace o
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