Merchant tailor and co-founder of Rotary International. Born Hiram Elroy Shorey in Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Merchant tailor and co-founder of Rotary International. Born Hiram Elroy Shorey in Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Hiram Shorey
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A popular local personality. The following text came from the Greenwich Phantom, who would like any more information you have: Doug was the son of Bill Mullins, one of the ‘old school’ of dairymen...
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