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- Address:
- 128 Rogers Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
- Phone:
- (800) 222-6846
- Website:
- http://www.gortons.com/
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- Company Information:
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Nearly 200 years after Samuel Gorton first came to Boston, another individualistic Gorton arrives on the scene as the founding father of this family's dynasty. Little is known about the childhood of Slade Gorton, born in 1832.
But we do know that Slade Gorton seems to have been a normal lad whose chief distinction was his large size. This made it possible for the young Slade to handle heavier chores than usually fell to a growing boy. By his 20s, after starting there as a youngster, he worked up to a position of overseer in a cotton mill in what is now Rhode Island.
But it was at his next job, as an overseer at another cotton mill in Rockport, Mass., that will explain how a job at a cotton mill would lead to wholesale fish merchant. According to Gorton's lore, the transition was stimulated by an energetic wife who saw a better future for herself and her family.
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