15. A Succession of Grocery Stores:

Lewis Flint’s; G.W. and C.H. Towle; Towle & Kent

Lewis Flint was a partner in Flint & Prescott, a grocery business located on Main Street near Monument Square. When the partnership ended, he bought the Anderson Market building from Asa Collier during the winter of 1884-85 for $5000.00. He converted the lower floor into a flour and grocery store and built the first part of an addition behind the building, along the Mill Brook. The addition was used for many years by George Emmott as his tin smith and plumber’s shop. In 1889, Flint sold his grocery business to George W. and Charles H. Towle and became a real estate agent and auctioneer. He died in 1892.

When George Towle died in 1894 at age thirty-three, Charles briefly carried on the business alone before taking on Charles G. Kent as a partner. The new partnership, known as Towle & Kent, continued until Charles Kent bought the Murray store and the partnership was dissolved. Shortly thereafter, Charles Towle sold out to Lars Anderson, and in 1913 the grocery business became Anderson’s Market.