WHOLESALE RETAIL GROCER WILLETT LETTER SIGNED/COVER HORNERSVILLE STEUBEN NY 1883

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Here’s an Attractive
1883
Retail Grocer Letter Signed, w/Stamped Cover, by Well-Known 19
th
Century Businessman at Hornell, New York
WILLIAM HENRY WILLETT
(1842 - 1914)
THE LETTER IS WRITTEN ON WILLETT’S
“OFFICE OF FAULKNER & WILLETT, WHOLESALE ~and~ RETAIL GROCERS”
LETTERHEAD,
1p.
, DATED AT HORNERSVILLE, NY, MARCH 31
st
, 1883, TO HIS FRIEND MRS. LIZZIE JOHNSON AT THE BERKSHIRES, NY, CONCERNING A VISIT.
THE COVER BEARS A GROCERS CORNER CARD and 3 CENT WASHINGTON US POSTAGE STAMP, WITH LIGHT BERNARDSVILLE, NY CDS POSTMARK.
THE DOCUMENT MEASURES 8” x 10” AND IS IN VF CONDITION.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:
[Willett, William Henry]
Death of W.H. Willett
W.H. Willett
, a former well-known business man at Hornell died at Buffalo Monday and the funeral was held here Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Craig at 2 p.m., Rev. H. [Henry] A. Abbott, pastor of the Universalist church officiating. Mr. Willett leaves a wife, formerly Miss Mary Grover, daughter of the late Hiram Grover of Nunda. Interment was made in Oakwood cemetery. Source: The Nunda News, Nunda NY, Sat. 21 Mar 1914
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William Henry Willett
was born in February 1842, in Collins, Collins, Erie, New York, United States, his father, William R Willett, was 41 and his mother, Alathea Pratt, was 38. He married Clara A. Chase in 1861, in Erie, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in New York, United States in 1870. He died in 1912, in North Collins, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in North Collins, Erie, New York
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