JOSEPH STODDARD LATHROP President 1853-1857
Joseph Lathrop's grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Lathrop, was for sixty-five years pastor of the Congregational Church of West Springfield. His father, the Hon. Samuel C. Lathrop, served as President of the State Senate in 1829 and 1830, and was a member of Congress for four successive terms. After his marriage, in 1838, Joseph Lathrop came to Northampton.
He was a member of the firm of Wm. H. Stoddard & Joseph Lathrop, succeeding that of Tappin & Whitney on Shop Row. Benjamin Tappan had built in 1770 a small wooden building for his store, replaced this in 1809 by a fine brick store, with a salesroom of twenty-two feet, for those days of palatial dimensions, and like so many of his fellow merchants on the street did business here for over half a century. Dry goods, hardware, groceries, boot and shoes, crockery, all these commodities could be bought in this store, and he and his successors always did a large and profitable amount of business.
He was the first president of the Northampton Gas Company, also a member of the committee to build the water works and president of the board of water commissioners, was treasurer of the Young Men's Institute and served on the board of the library. At the death of his wife in 1861, he removed to S. Louis, where he became a member of the firm of Lathrop and McKillop, mercantile agents. He died in St. Louis, on April 20, 1877.
Northampton and the Northampton Institution for Savings 1842-1942, Metcalf Pntg. & Pub. Co., Inc., Northampton, Mass.
Joseph Lathrop's grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Lathrop, was for sixty-five years pastor of the Congregational Church of West Springfield. His father, the Hon. Samuel C. Lathrop, served as President of the State Senate in 1829 and 1830, and was a member of Congress for four successive terms. After his marriage, in 1838, Joseph Lathrop came to Northampton.
He was a member of the firm of Wm. H. Stoddard & Joseph Lathrop, succeeding that of Tappin & Whitney on Shop Row. Benjamin Tappan had built in 1770 a small wooden building for his store, replaced this in 1809 by a fine brick store, with a salesroom of twenty-two feet, for those days of palatial dimensions, and like so many of his fellow merchants on the street did business here for over half a century. Dry goods, hardware, groceries, boot and shoes, crockery, all these commodities could be bought in this store, and he and his successors always did a large and profitable amount of business.
He was the first president of the Northampton Gas Company, also a member of the committee to build the water works and president of the board of water commissioners, was treasurer of the Young Men's Institute and served on the board of the library. At the death of his wife in 1861, he removed to S. Louis, where he became a member of the firm of Lathrop and McKillop, mercantile agents. He died in St. Louis, on April 20, 1877.
Northampton and the Northampton Institution for Savings 1842-1942, Metcalf Pntg. & Pub. Co., Inc., Northampton, Mass.
JOSEPH STODDARD LATHROP President 1853-1857
Joseph Lathrop's grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Lathrop, was for sixty-five years pastor of the Congregational Church of West Springfield. His father, the Hon. Samuel C. Lathrop, served as President of the State Senate in 1829 and 1830, and was a member of Congress for four successive terms. After his marriage, in 1838, Joseph Lathrop came to Northampton.
He was a member of the firm of Wm. H. Stoddard & Joseph Lathrop, succeeding that of Tappin & Whitney on Shop Row. Benjamin Tappan had built in 1770 a small wooden building for his store, replaced this in 1809 by a fine brick store, with a salesroom of twenty-two feet, for those days of palatial dimensions, and like so many of his fellow merchants on the street did business here for over half a century. Dry goods, hardware, groceries, boot and shoes, crockery, all these commodities could be bought in this store, and he and his successors always did a large and profitable amount of business.
He was the first president of the Northampton Gas Company, also a member of the committee to build the water works and president of the board of water commissioners, was treasurer of the Young Men's Institute and served on the board of the library. At the death of his wife in 1861, he removed to S. Louis, where he became a member of the firm of Lathrop and McKillop, mercantile agents. He died in St. Louis, on April 20, 1877.
Northampton and the Northampton Institution for Savings 1842-1942, Metcalf Pntg. & Pub. Co., Inc., Northampton, Mass.
Joseph Lathrop's grandfather, the Rev. Joseph Lathrop, was for sixty-five years pastor of the Congregational Church of West Springfield. His father, the Hon. Samuel C. Lathrop, served as President of the State Senate in 1829 and 1830, and was a member of Congress for four successive terms. After his marriage, in 1838, Joseph Lathrop came to Northampton.
He was a member of the firm of Wm. H. Stoddard & Joseph Lathrop, succeeding that of Tappin & Whitney on Shop Row. Benjamin Tappan had built in 1770 a small wooden building for his store, replaced this in 1809 by a fine brick store, with a salesroom of twenty-two feet, for those days of palatial dimensions, and like so many of his fellow merchants on the street did business here for over half a century. Dry goods, hardware, groceries, boot and shoes, crockery, all these commodities could be bought in this store, and he and his successors always did a large and profitable amount of business.
He was the first president of the Northampton Gas Company, also a member of the committee to build the water works and president of the board of water commissioners, was treasurer of the Young Men's Institute and served on the board of the library. At the death of his wife in 1861, he removed to S. Louis, where he became a member of the firm of Lathrop and McKillop, mercantile agents. He died in St. Louis, on April 20, 1877.
Northampton and the Northampton Institution for Savings 1842-1942, Metcalf Pntg. & Pub. Co., Inc., Northampton, Mass.
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