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Emma J. Treadway, daughter of Enoch
Treadway, of Salem, Connecticut. They
were the parents of a daughter and 50n.
The former became the wife of Arthur L.
Cowan, and has three sons, Raymond T.,
Kenneth P., and Thomas Leslie.
(\ III) Fred I torace Thrall, only son of
Thomas M. and Emma J. (Treadway)
Thrall, was born November 3, [872, in
Windsor, on the homestead which he now
occupies, ami grew np under the condi-
tions which surrounded the farmer hoy of
his time. lie was thus accustomed to
early rising and soon acquired industrious
application in forwarding the various in-
terests of the farm. His formal schooling
was confined to that supplied by the pub-
lic schools in the neighborhood, and very
early in life he assumed the responsibility
of a farm manager. Upon the death of
his father in 1889 he became the owner and
sole manager of the property. He ranks
among the largest tobacco growers of the
time, devoting about sixty acres annually
to shade grown tobacco in addition to fifty
acres of open grown crop. In the last
year he also devoted sixteen acres to
potatoes, thirty acres to corn and one
hundred acres to hay. His residence is
one of the finest rural homes in the Conn-
ecticut Valley. It was erected in 1878,
constructed of brick, and is one of the
most substantial as well as handsomest
farm houses of the community. In addi-
tion to handling his own product, Mr.
Thrall engages largely in buying and
packing tobacco of other growers. In
1917 his operations in this direction exceeded
that of any other individual packer
in New England. During the packing
season he employs one hundred and sixty
hands and has a large force the year
round. Residing in a town whose voters
are strongly Republican in majority, he
adheres to the tenets of his fathers and
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sustains the principles of the
party. In [918 he
party for State Senator and .
thirty-three votes of securing the •
ame within
in a district whose normal Republi
majority is about twelve hundred. I
high vote is a compliment imonial
to the personal esteem in which Mr.
Thrall is held by his contemporaries In
more than forty years no other Demo-
cratic candidate has come as near election
in the district as he. His own town gave
him a majority of seventy-one votes,
where- the opposition majority is usually
in the neighborhood of one hundred and
fifty.
Mr. Thrall has long been deeply inter-
ested in the development of fine
and has been the patron of legitimate-
sport in the way of horse racing. In [915
he purchased Sage Park, near Windsor,
where racing meetings are regularly held
during each season. Mr. Thrall is the
owner of several registered animals, and
travels the Xew England circuit each
year with racing animals. The meetings
at Sage Park are generally admitted to be
the most successful held in Xew England.
Mr. Thrall married Nellie, daughter of
John Sheridan, of Windsor Locks.
FORMAN, George Lisle,
Insurance Broker.
This is the day of the young man.
George L. Forman, although not yet
thirty years of age, has achieved consider-
able, and it is safe to assume that the high
tide of his life will tell an interesting
story. George Lisle Forman was born
September 9. 1891. in Chicago, Illin<
son of George L. and Gertrude Antoinette
(Young) Forman.
His father, George L. Forman, was
born in Montrose, Scotland, and when a