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portion 01 wnicn is NianuuiK, w*b ucui-cated March 6, ImL in the tey« of his activity few men were more widely known in Oil I# Turners’ Falla and Greenfield thanAtherton! home of his daughter. Mr* George H • Wright in peer ftp Id Wednesday. MiAtherton ha«fb««n 111 for several months and hi* Intimate friends knew that he lent all ambition and was hopeful that the end would come soon. His wife died ,, about two years Ago. V: A.I Mr and Mrs Atherton observed the BOth anniversary of their marriage at their home in Turners Falls in 1913. They were married in Gill by the late Josiah T. Tanning, town clerk of Gill for many years. Just prior to his marriage Mr Atherton had been honorably discharged from the Army, having lost an arm at Fair Oaks. Mr Atherton was . a corporal in Co O, the Greenfield com- , pany, 10th Massachusetts Volunteers, , under Capt Edwin K Day, for whom ' the Grand Army post at Greenfield Isnamed. . . , ___ .A larger portion of the business career j,, of Mr Atherton was at Turners Falla.! He was chairman of the Selectmen of Montague for several terms, superintendent of streets, and represented the 3d District In the Legislature. He was a delegate to the National Democratic convention at Chicago in 1896 and was a warm admirer of Bryan and George Fred Williams. For a time, late in life.Mr Atherton was superintendent of a phosphate mine at Bartow, Fla, in which Harry Pierce arid others of the first promoters of the Greenfield and Turners Falls Street Hallway were interested. ; . u wn would he interesting if it could hestated with a fair degree of accuracy thea# mnnav tlmt furmArR made‘
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Boston Sunday Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, Dec 24, 1916
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