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From The Hartwells of America...
by Lyman Willard Densmore, Hartwell & Lorenzen, Saginaw MI, 1956
Page 49
JOHN BRYANT HARTWELL was studious and thoughtful as a boy and the comfortable circumstances of his parents enabled him to acquire what he eagerly sought, and excellent education. At the age of twenty-one he went to Providence and prepared to enter college with some thought of ultimately entering the Christian ministery [sic]. Duty seemed to call him elsewhere, and he found employment in the store of James H. Read, where his upright manly bearing, his courteous demeaner, and his conscientious devotion to his duties won his unusual reapect. Advancing rapidly in his business, a few years later he started for himself in a small store in the Arcade under the name of Hartwell and Crogin. After several time changing his quarters here, it became necessary for him to seek more commodious accomodations, and several years afterwards he moved into the building on Weybosset St., later occupied by Hartwell and Richards, where he laid the foundations of the subsequently prosperious business of that influential firm. Beginning under the name of Hartwell, Dudley & Co., as the business increased, new partners were taken in, Mr. Dudley having obtained a position elsewhere, until the house assumed the name of Hartwell, Richards & co., at one time one of the oldest and largest wholesale dry goods houses in Providence. He was a life long member and deacon of the Central Baptist Church, and for the last few years of his life a trustee of Brown University.
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