Andover Townsman – October 19, 1888 - Vol. 2 - No. 1 - Page 4
Death of Mr. George H. French.
We have to record this week the death of Mr. George H. French, a former citizen of Andover, who died at his home in Davenport, Iowa, last Saturday, Oct. 13, at the age of 63. Mr. French was the son of George and Mary (Richardson) French of Andover, and born here, Feb. 23, 1825. Losing both his parents before he was twelve years old, he was obliged from that time to make his own way in life. He studied for two or three years in Phillips Academy, and afterward in the High School at Lowell, but when seventeen years old entered the leather business in Boston, becoming a prosperous merchant in that line. In 1850 he removed to Davenport.
Mr. French visited the East annually, usually spending his summer vacation at Pocasset, and was in Boston but a few weeks ago, hastening home under the pressure of the sickness which has resulted fatally. He leaves a widow—a sister of Chief Justice Morton—and six children, four sons and two daughters: Morton French, connected with the mining interests in Utah, Judge Nathaniel French, of Iowa, Geo. W. French, a graduate of Phillips Academy, 1877, and in business with his father, Robert T. French, who has just entered the senior class of Phillips, Misses Alice and Frances Morton French, both educated at Abbot Academy—the former well known in literature as "Octave Thanet." Mrs. James A. Roberts, now residing in Andover, is a sister of Mr. French.
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Death of Mr. George H. French.
We have to record this week the death of Mr. George H. French, a former citizen of Andover, who died at his home in Davenport, Iowa, last Saturday, Oct. 13, at the age of 63. Mr. French was the son of George and Mary (Richardson) French of Andover, and born here, Feb. 23, 1825. Losing both his parents before he was twelve years old, he was obliged from that time to make his own way in life. He studied for two or three years in Phillips Academy, and afterward in the High School at Lowell, but when seventeen years old entered the leather business in Boston, becoming a prosperous merchant in that line. In 1850 he removed to Davenport.
Mr. French visited the East annually, usually spending his summer vacation at Pocasset, and was in Boston but a few weeks ago, hastening home under the pressure of the sickness which has resulted fatally. He leaves a widow—a sister of Chief Justice Morton—and six children, four sons and two daughters: Morton French, connected with the mining interests in Utah, Judge Nathaniel French, of Iowa, Geo. W. French, a graduate of Phillips Academy, 1877, and in business with his father, Robert T. French, who has just entered the senior class of Phillips, Misses Alice and Frances Morton French, both educated at Abbot Academy—the former well known in literature as "Octave Thanet." Mrs. James A. Roberts, now residing in Andover, is a sister of Mr. French.
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Andover Townsman – October 19, 1888 - Vol. 2 - No. 1 - Page 4
Death of Mr. George H. French.
We have to record this week the death of Mr. George H. French, a former citizen of Andover, who died at his home in Davenport, Iowa, last Saturday, Oct. 13, at the age of 63. Mr. French was the son of George and Mary (Richardson) French of Andover, and born here, Feb. 23, 1825. Losing both his parents before he was twelve years old, he was obliged from that time to make his own way in life. He studied for two or three years in Phillips Academy, and afterward in the High School at Lowell, but when seventeen years old entered the leather business in Boston, becoming a prosperous merchant in that line. In 1850 he removed to Davenport.
Mr. French visited the East annually, usually spending his summer vacation at Pocasset, and was in Boston but a few weeks ago, hastening home under the pressure of the sickness which has resulted fatally. He leaves a widow—a sister of Chief Justice Morton—and six children, four sons and two daughters: Morton French, connected with the mining interests in Utah, Judge Nathaniel French, of Iowa, Geo. W. French, a graduate of Phillips Academy, 1877, and in business with his father, Robert T. French, who has just entered the senior class of Phillips, Misses Alice and Frances Morton French, both educated at Abbot Academy—the former well known in literature as "Octave Thanet." Mrs. James A. Roberts, now residing in Andover, is a sister of Mr. French.
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Death of Mr. George H. French.
We have to record this week the death of Mr. George H. French, a former citizen of Andover, who died at his home in Davenport, Iowa, last Saturday, Oct. 13, at the age of 63. Mr. French was the son of George and Mary (Richardson) French of Andover, and born here, Feb. 23, 1825. Losing both his parents before he was twelve years old, he was obliged from that time to make his own way in life. He studied for two or three years in Phillips Academy, and afterward in the High School at Lowell, but when seventeen years old entered the leather business in Boston, becoming a prosperous merchant in that line. In 1850 he removed to Davenport.
Mr. French visited the East annually, usually spending his summer vacation at Pocasset, and was in Boston but a few weeks ago, hastening home under the pressure of the sickness which has resulted fatally. He leaves a widow—a sister of Chief Justice Morton—and six children, four sons and two daughters: Morton French, connected with the mining interests in Utah, Judge Nathaniel French, of Iowa, Geo. W. French, a graduate of Phillips Academy, 1877, and in business with his father, Robert T. French, who has just entered the senior class of Phillips, Misses Alice and Frances Morton French, both educated at Abbot Academy—the former well known in literature as "Octave Thanet." Mrs. James A. Roberts, now residing in Andover, is a sister of Mr. French.
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