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turned the wheel. Who thought of getting copper from somewhere and making tea kettles and cooking kettles, I don't know. But somebody had. The same name persisted. The contemporary representative of the family still bore the family name and his first name was Percy - that's all I can remember. It was an ancient industry and they ran the “kittleshop.”

Because of the fact that there was a copper works there the “kittleshop” had expanded enormously; other utensils and objects of copper had come in. A copper wire works had gotten started. So the whole town had to do with copper. There must have been five or six big factories all engaged in making something or other out of copper. They were under completely different management.

The rest of the town was the ancient, upstate New York town, with a beautiful central commons, a park, a fine courthouse, an old townhouse, and good, fine, comfortable - some very elegant - old houses, shade trees, lawns, flower beds, pansies and everything very nice, with the side streets all very nice. The town is now on the other side of the canal. You have to cross the canal between the railroad station and the town - the Cross-State Canal.

Whereas the original workers in the copper industry had been the local people and the local farmers, as the





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