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George Huntington Hartford retailerBorn: 1833 Birthplace: Augusta, Maine Hartford worked in stores in Boston and St. Louis before heading to New York City, where he and George F. Gilman opened the first of their stores known as the Great American Tea Company. As it expanded west, the name was changed to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, and in 1915 he relinquished control of the firm to his sons George and John. The chain of 4,700 stores was known as the A&P by 1951, when they began expanding the inventory and to even manufacture certain items themselves. George Ludlum Hartford food merchantBorn: 1864 Died: 1957 John Augustine Hartford food merchantBorn: 1872 Died: 1951 Died: 1917 Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. More on George Huntington Hartford from Infoplease:
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