17. A Succession of Grocery Stores
Lewis Flint was a partner in Flint & Prescott, a grocery business located on Main Street near Monument Square, In the winter of 1884-85, Flint's partnership with Prescott ended and he bought the Anderson Market building from Asa Collier. He converted the lower floor into a grocery store and built an addition behind the building. George Emmott, a tinsmith and plumber, used the addition for many years. In 1889, Flint sold his grocery business to George W. and Charles H. Towle and became a real estate agent and auctioneer. He died in 1892.
When George Towle died in 1894, Charles Towle briefly carried on the grocery business alone before taking on Charles G. Kent as a partner. The new partnership, Towle & Kent, continued until Kent left the business to buy the Murray store. Shortly thereafter, Towle sold out to Lars Anderso and in 1913, the grocery business became Anderson's Market.