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Daniel Gorton, born at Pomfret, Vt., April 5, 1790, came to Malone in 1820, where he established a paper mill
on the west side of the river at about where Earle's axe factory and then Ladd, & Smallman's planing mill used
to be. All paper was then made by hand, and it was Mr. Gorton's custom to manufacture a quantity and peddle it
himself through the country. When the time came that he was able to employ two girls in the mill he felt that the
business had prospered greatly. Mr. Gorton was of superior abilities, and was a horn agitator and reformer. He
organized here the first temperance society ever formed in Northern New York, and though he was criticized and
opposed by the clergy as undertaking to interfere with personal liberty persisted in his work of lecturing in advocacy
of teetotalism and prohibition. He became also an anti Mason, and after his removal from Malone to Lowell, Mass.,
which occurred in 1831, he was enlisted in the anti slavery crusade as an ardent abolitionist, and was the close
friend of William Lloyd Garrison and his coadjutor in the cause. Mr. Gorton died at Lowell in 1875.
From:
Historical Sketches of Franklin County
and its several towns.
By: Frederick J. Seaver Malone, New York.
J. B. Lyon Company, Printers Albany, NY 1918.
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