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American seed businessman

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English: American seed businessman who lived in Boston

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Thomas W. Emerson, one of the oldest seedsmen of New England, died at his home in Salem Depot, N. H., December 28, at the age of seventy years. Mr. Emerson was born in Windham, N. H. When a young man he served as a clerk in the agricultural warehouse of Nourse, Mason & Co., the predecessors of the Ames Plow Company, after which he established himself in the seed business in Boston, holding a position high in the trade for forty years. Five years ago he retired to his farm in New Hampshire on account of ill-health, his business some time previously having been incorporated as the T. W. Emerson Seed Company. He was the best known man in Boston in the specialty of field seeds, did an immense business therein, was a member of the Boston Chamber oi Commerce, and was one of the most esteemed and popular men in the seed trade. One daughter, Mrs. Gardner Murphy, survives him.

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Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/18112896706/ Extracted from (9 January 1904). "Obituary: Thomas W. Emerson". The American florist: A weekly journal for the trade 21 (814): 911. Chicago, IL: American Florist Company.
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