Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . his education, and he began life apoor boy, rising through his own efforts to a posi-tion of wealth and prominence. Like many an-other successful man, he began life as a he successfully engaged in the hat businesswith a Mr. Leavitt, on Broadway, New York, andhe also carried on the manufacture of parasols andumbrellas, and was an importer of silks. On ac-count of ill health, brought on by overwork
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . his education, and he began life apoor boy, rising through his own efforts to a posi-tion of wealth and prominence. Like many an-other successful man, he began life as a he successfully engaged in the hat businesswith a Mr. Leavitt, on Broadway, New York, andhe also carried on the manufacture of parasols andumbrellas, and was an importer of silks. On ac-count of ill health, brought on by overwork, hedecided to take up farming, and accordingly pur-chased a place near Hartford, on which he residedsome seven years. At the end of that period heopened a business in Wethersfield. engaged as gen-eral merchant and druggist in the store later oc-cupied by Walkley & Damery up to the time of hisdeath. He was a straightforward, reliable businessman, and in his undertakings met with well-de-served success. In disposition modest, unassumingand retiring, though strong in his convictions, noman in the community was more highly respected,and his name became a household word in Weth-. ^y^A^t cS^n^i^^^i a^^L- COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 097 ersfield. He always kept abreast with the times,was well posted on all leading events, and cast hisballot with the Republican party; he was no of-fice seeker. Mr. Amidon married Nancy HolmesSouthworth, and to them were born five children:John, who died in infancy; Charles and Frank, bothmerchants, members of the firm of J. Amidon &Co., who are now deceased; Lizzie, deceased; andCarrie E., widow of Charles H. Havens. died in 1891, at the age of seventy-fiveyears, his wife in 1892, at the age of sixty-seven,and both were laid to rest in Cedar Hill cemetery,of which he was one of the fifty original pur-chasers. Religiously they were faithful membersof lhe Congregational Church. FRANCIS N. GOODRICH was burn in thetown of East Berlin, Hart
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