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Title: History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pape, William Jamieson, 1873-
Subjects: Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Waterbury (Conn.) -- Biography Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- History Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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Louis C, a resident of New Lebanon, New York; and Andrew, of Winsted, Connecticut.
George Weigold has spent his entire life in Torrington and is indebted to its public
school system for his educational opportunities. He left the high school at the age of
sixteen years to enter business. He had. been reared on his fathers farm near Tor-
rington and there remained until he reached the age of twenty-five, for following his
fathers death in 1889 he took charge of the farm, which he operated for his mother for a
number of years. While thus engaged he turned his attention to the milk business in a
small way but soon built up a good trade, so that after a short time he ceased to engage
in general farming, sold his herd of Guernsey cows and concentrated his attention upon
his milk routes and the demands of his customers. He purchased milk from the farmers
in the vicinity of Torrington and steadily his business increased, for his patrons found him
thoroughly reliable not only in the quality of milk which he carried but in the business
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GEORGE WEIGOLD
WATERBURY AND THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY 33
methods which he pursued. He has since continued in the creamery business and his milk
routes now embrace perhaps more than one-half of the city of Torrington. He handles
six thousand quarts of milk per day and in the conduct of his business he employs four
motor trucks and a number of horse-drawn wagons. He has developed a large wholesale
trade, shipping both milk and ice cream to various cities and towns of the Naugatuck
valley from Winsted to Derby. About 1902 he purchased the Torrington Creamery on
Riverside avenue, which was then manufacturing a small quantity of butter per day—
from four hundred to five hundred pounds. Mr. Weigold still makes about the same
amount of butter but has greatly increased the business of the creamery by the develop-
ment of a large ice cream trade and now makes and sells both at wholesale and retail,
handling from two hundred to three hundred gallons of ice cream per day. The Tor-
rington Creamery is thoroughly modern and up-to-date in every respect.

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