George B. Chadwick Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire 
From: Claudia Menzel - menzel99@gateway.net 

Surname: CHADWICK
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 808

   GEORGE B. CHADWICK, a member of the firm of Chadwick and
Trefethen, machinists, steamfitters and electrical contractors, Ports-
mouth, N. H., was born at Boxford, Mass., October 1, 1858. His par-
ents were George W. and Sophonia (Day) Chadwick, the former of
whom was a farmer. He was educated in the public and district schools
of his native town, and in 1880 began industrial life as an apprentice
to the trade of machinist and steamfitter with Davis & Furber. In
1885 he became an employe of the Portsmouth Machine Company, in
1888 becoming master mechanic, and he continued with that firm for
five years. He next engaged in his present business, in 1890, having
succeeded J. F. Shillaber. The present firm of Chadwick & Trefethen
was formed in 1906 and has met with marked success ever since. In
addition to their work as contractors along the lines above mentioned,
they deal in steam and water pipe fittings, engineers', plumbers' and
electrical supplies and sporting goods. The business is the oldest and
most extensive of its kind in Portsmouth, the plant located at 32 Bow
Street having been established more than forty years ago. The con-
cern gives employment to about twenty persons. Mr. Chadwick is
affiliated with the Odd Fellows, also St. Andrew's Lodge of Masons.
   He married Miss Abbie W. Hickey, a daughter of John Hickey, of
Newburyport, Mass. He and his famIly are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and they reside at No. 53 Rogers Street. In politics
he is independent.

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