Obituary of Edward L. Norton, was owner of Bennington

OBITUARY.

EDWARD L. NORTON.

THE announcement is made of the death of the senior member of the firm of E. L. Norton & Co., Bennington, Vt., of typhoid fever. Mr. Norton, associated with C. W. Thatcher, succeeded to the business of the Bennington pottery, long carried on by E. & L. P. Norton, after the death of Edward Norton, father of the deceased. This pottery dates from 1798, and is the oldest in the State as well as the only one carried on by the members of one family in the country, the management descending from father to son. The firm of young men have in late years greatly enlarged the mercantile part of the business, employing several salesmen, and Mr. Norton himself traveling extensively in the interest of the firm. In this way he became widely acquainted with business men to whom the firm name of E. & L. P. Norton and the "Bennington Stoneware" were household words in their youth. He was of a genial disposition and was very popular.