MINER. MITCHELL. 4'7 the vessel. Making the best of his disap- pointment, he procured employment in the dry-goods store of E. & C. G. Birdsey, of Bridgeport, Conn., where he remained a year, and in 1850, removing to Boston, he entered the dry-goods jobbing house of J. N. Denison & Co., with whom he spent six years GEORGE A. MINER. His first connection in business for him- self was as a member of the firm of Talbot, Newell & Co., and, in 1862, this was re- organized as Merritt, Parkhurst & Co. , later, Parkhurst, Miner & Beal ; Miner, Beal & Hackett, and now Miner, Beal & Co., wholesale clothiers, of which Mr. Miner is the senior partner. Mr. Miner was married in September, 1866, at Westborough, to Maria Louise, the daughter of Josiah W. and Clarina S. Blake. Mrs. Miner died in July, 1887, leaving no children. Mr. Miner has long held an enviable reputation for business sagacity and integ- rity, and while not actively engaged in politics, yet well represents that large class of the mercantile community whose views upon the current movements of the day, and whose sterling private character, go far to build up that unerring and potent factor in political life known as public opinion. MINK, WILLIAM, son of Henry W. and Eve Mink, was born April 7th, 1832, at Rhinebeck, Dutchess county, N. Y. After an early education at select schools, he graduated at the Rhinebeck Academy, and entered the law office of the late Charles W. Mink, at Albany, N. Y. But that profession becoming distasteful to him, he became apprenticed to the printing business, and is at present president and treasurer of the Sun Printing Company, located at Pittsfield, where he now resides. At Kingston, N. Y., he married Elizabeth Hall, daughter of the late Samuel Rey- nolds. They have three sons and one daughter. During the war Mr. Mink served in the 34th Massachusetts volunteers, and has been connected with the Massachusetts militia in various positions for about fifteen vears. WILLIAM MINK. He is a firm adherent to the faith of Democracy as proclaimed and illustrated by Thomas Jefferson. MITCHELL, Edwin Vinald, son of William W. and Sarah (Phipps Leland) Mitchell, was born in Sangersville, Piscata- quis county, Me., October 2, 1850. His education was received in the com- mon and high schools of Framingham, Mass.
