DEMERS & PREVOST. ~ Louis, son of Joseph and Caroline DESROCHERS
DEMERS, was born at St. Nicholas, Province of Quebec, in 1851. His life
has been an active one, with the experience of sunshine and shadow. He
was educated at the Christian Brothers' School at Quebec, and then for
several years followed the free life of a navigator on the St. Lawrence
river, and later clerked three years in Quebec.
Soon after attaining his majority he came to St. Johnsbury and became
book and time-keeper for Joseph TRUDELL, railroad contractor, and later
married his daughter, Georgianna. Subsequently he was clerk and then junior
partner in the grocery firm of DEMERS & PINARD, and has been engaged
in this line of business on Railroad street, either as proprietor or foreman
more than twenty years.
Mr. DEMERS is an active, genial, and accommodating citizen, thoroughly
well acquainted with his business and the public.
Mr. and Mrs. DEMERS are the parents of nine children, four of whom
are living.
The firm of DEMERS & PREVOST, formed in October, 1902, and located
in Demers' block, Railroad street, is doing an extensive business in the
line of groceries and provisions and is a beehive of industry. An important
feature is the bakery, which receives a large patronage. The meat market
of P. MORIN, located in the rear, completes the supply for the tables of
customers.
Arthur J., son of Jules and Adelaide BOSSONNAULT PREVOST, was born
in St. Valentine, Province of Quebec, in 1859. After his mother's death,
when he was twelve years old, he found a home with her brother, Rev. Charles
BOSSONNAULT. He received an excellent education in the public schools and
at College Bourget, from which he graduated in 1885.
Three years later he came to St. Johnsbury, and was engaged in the
grocery business two years with his brother. Later he was for several years
agent at St. Johnsbury for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Portland,
was five years with the Eureka Shoe Co. of Manchester, New Hampshire and
two years with E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., a varied and helpful experience.
Mr. PREVOST married in 1880 Claire, daughter of Thomas BELANGER,
and they have five children. He is an energetic and useful citizen. Both
partners are members of the Catholic Order of Foresters.
Source: Successful Vermonters,
William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company,
1904, page 72-73.
Prepared
by Tom Dunn December 2004
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