Stop 4: 24 Ascutney St.

The Mower brothers,
Five can be found,
Including in this house
High up on the ground

Samuel A.G. Mower had five sons--Samuel, Charles, Solon, George, and Mack. Samuel served in the 1st and 10th Vermont infantry in the Civil War and then lived in New Haven, Connecticut; he was an inventor holding 20 patents. In 1880 Charles was a shoe shop overseer and lived a few houses away from Solon with his wife Mary and three sons. Solon Taylor Mower lived in this house at 24 Ascutney Street. Like his father he was a butcher for G.W. Thurston; he also owned 70 acres in 1883-84. In 1900 George Mower lived in Windsor with his children Earl and Elsie and a servant, Ellen Coyle. Mack Mower worked in the Windsor machine tool industry: he began at Jones & Lamson and became a superintendent at Cone Automatic
Machine Company. A few next generation sidenotes: Solon’s son Will served as superintendent of Cone Automatic and taught shop classes at
Windsor High School. George’a son Earl is pictured here holding the football as a member of the 1902 Windsor High School team.

(continue down Ascutney Street, stopping at the intersection with State Street)