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Title: Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Munson, George A(lbert) 1853-
Subjects: Smyrna (N.Y.) -- Genealogy Smyrna (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: (Norwich, N.Y.) Chenango union presses
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the Hayward stc rewere Harvey Talcott, Parsons & Monroe, Eber Dimmick, andKinyon & Isbell. The store on the old Mead place, torn down byMr. G. P. Pudney, on which site now stands his law office, wasoccupied by Nathan Sutliff, and its last use was as a feed storekept by Ery W. Stokes in the late sixties. The old hardwarestore was occupied by Almenzo K. Dixon for some twenty-fiveyears, where a most successful hardware business was conducteduntil the same was sold to Lyon & Ferris in the fall of 1890, thesame being now conducted by Lyon & Son, in the new brickstore nearly on the site of the old one. The old building waspreviously occupied by Eber Dimmick, James O. Ransom, B.Leavenworth, Nathaniel P. Wheeler and Horace T. Nearing,Abel Comstock came here forty-two years ago, purchasing theold Shepard drug store, and the business is now in the hands ofhis oldest son, James T. Comstock, whose new brick store is amodel of neatness. The old store was formerly owned by Trow- 13S
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Our First Old Home Week bridge Shepard and conducted as a drug store, who continued itas such until his death in the summer of 1862, mention of whichis made elsewhere in this volume. The present Nearing storewas owned and occupied as a store many years by James O.Ransom, by whom it is said to have been built, and since hemoved from the town has been in use by several parties, includ-ing Beard Leavenworth, Gazley & Lawrence, George H. Mead.Samuel Lee, L. Boothby, and recently by Mrs. Anna Martin. Itis the only store building left by the fire of 1900. Among other stores kept here we remember a small onekept by Milo Benedict in the present Widger barber shop, andone kept by Jesse Burlingham, in the present Hay house, whoconducted a boot and shoe store therewith. This store was thedelight of the small boy, and it was never ascertained which wasthe drawing card in his business, the long rows of glass cans oftempting candy, or the numberless pairs of stogy boots alwayson exhibition. The

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