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FOUNDED AND DEVELOPED THE ONLY KNOWN AUTOGRAPH LIBRARY IN THE WORLD AT CHRISTMAS COVE, MAINE, 1918 Texas and especially Jones County, including Anson high schoo) lost one of the most cherished and beloved trends on Mnday, September 24th, when William Lawrence Chittenden ged in New York City, burial being made at his birthplace, Montclair, x. J. on Wednesday. Death followed an operation. The part of the range was born in New Jersey and comes of the best arly American blood. On the ma ternal side he is of Huguenot decent. Or the paternal he claims William Chittenden of Kent, England, who sited in 1639, on Indian lands at Guilford, Conn. The premises are all owned by Chittendens. Mr Chittenden’s father was Henry A. Chittenden, once a prominent New York merchant and one of the funders of the Plymouth church. Larry, as he was always known, ceived an excellent education and was in the school room that the sistant state of Texas quickened the bus’s interest in the land and we people. He began business as a newspaper porter in New York, and later beam a dry goods salesman; but at the while, it seems, the prairies of Texas bekowed to the spot in his seirt that longed for adventure. In 1383, as a traveling correspondent and salesman, and with a borrowed sin of fifty dollars, young Chit angen sit out for Texas, the land of his dreams, Hon. Simson B. Crittenden, an Irele of the younger Chittenden, and a former congressman located ‘4 ranch in Jones County and lary settled with him and estab led one famous Chittenden ranch, 21887. When his uncle died in 1889, Larry bought the ranch from whe at's interest and thereafter de velped it alone. He was “off and in the «ranch from 1887 to 1904 wen he returned to New York. The original ranch consisted of two complete leagues or nearly ten thousand acres of land. The Abilene id Southern built through the ‘arch and the town of Radium was still in the northeast corner of his ‘aidings, Morgan Jones, builder of te railroad, laid off town lots at a cum. A number of farms have ten sold and the ranch now consists of nearly 3,800 acres. It has then operated by Jess Kennedy for a number of years on a lease basis. Other men who have ‘had charge d the ranch since Mr. Chittenden ot Texas in 1904 are W. F. Flint, Jake Wright, B. F. Bailey and H. {. Hale, John Allen Wood, and Vick Colbert, owas wie Larry was on the Red in Jones County that he be ‘me inspired by the vast plains and natural beauties of the prairie and a consequence tried his pen at ‘tree. The result was the volume ea ted “Ranch Verses” which was Published in 1893 and which is now
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Anson Western Enterprise
Anson, Texas, US
Thu, Oct 11, 1934
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