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Barton Francis

Barton Francis William Gillette Youth The neighborhood where William Gillette was born, Nook Farm in Hartford, Connecticut, was a literary and intellectual center, with such residents as Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dudley Warner. Gillette’s father was Francis Gillette, a former United States Senator and crusader for the abolition of slavery, public education, [...]