Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-03
N. DOUGLASS SEWN TO
 RETIRE FROM BUSINESS
Senior Business Man of the cty-53 Years in Same Location-Drua Firm to Sell Out.


 After 55 years in the drug business ir the same store in this city, No. 11S Main street, N. Douglass Sevin, head of the firm of N. D. Ssvin & Son. is 1 to retire from the business in two weeks, when the business will be sold to out of town interests, though Mir. Sevin was not ready on Friday night to say who the purchaser will be- The purchaser, however, is to continue the business in this city, but without doubt in another location.
 MT. Sevin's plans for the future have not been made. nor has lis son, Frank D. Sevin. who is associated with him. decided as to his future plans
 With s4fh long record of business life in thS city. MT. Sevin, who was l6 on the first of June, is easily the dean of all Norwich business men, and presents a unique experience in never having changed his location since the business started with the firm of Lanman Rs Sevin on the first of September, 1865, when MT. Sevin ! formed a partnership with William c. | Lanman.
 Two years before this, in 1863, MT. Sevin had returned to this city from his Civil war experience which was as
 hospital steward with the 18th Con-
 necticut Volunteers, which was nine
 months regiment of which four com
 panies were recruited in this city, Col.
 Kingsley commanding. MT. Sevin en-
 listed on Aug. 25, 1862, left with the
 regiment in November of the same
 year, and was mustered out on Aug. F, 1883, which by coincidence will
 he the date upon which the transfer
 of the business will be consummated
 Born in Fitchville, MT. Sevin was
 preparing to teach school after he had completed his own education. when
 an opportunity was presented to enter the drug store of Dr. William S. Tyler
 on Water street as a boy. Here he stayed for three years until lis en- listment for the war, and after his army service he came hack to the Ty- : Ter drug store and was with William s. Tyler and Son for two years unti he fo~-7ed the partnership with Mir Lanman. r etl~s4a
 At l..9 end of fourteen years of z :, successful experience, Mir. SeviI l bought his partner out, continuing tn, !, business alone until about 25 year ago when he took his son into busi
 ress with him.
 : When he first rented the building l the property was owned by the l. , Hommideau heirs, but it was soon af : ter bought by Henry Bill and remain I ed in that ownership until two O
 three years ago. when the buildin: s was purchased by James L. Crawford 1 the present owner.
 t For many years the late N. $. Gil l. bert and the late W. H. Cardweu hal
 held the title of the oldest active bus
 mess men in the city. They wer
 both in business. MT. Gilbert in tn , furniture business in Broadway wher
 the Del-Hoff hotel now is, and MI e CardweIl in the grocery business il
 Water street, when Sevin and Ian
 man started their drug store. Sine . the death of these two gentlemen . few years ago, however, MT. Sevi, i has been the senior business man 0 : the city
 l. In the drug trade the firm has ha . long and honorable career, alway r maintaining the highest standard, an f the senior member of the firm has bee known ali over the state from his con f Inection with the State Pharmaceutics k association, of which he was presi
 dent for three years, and through hi IF service on the state board of pharma 6 cy. He was first appointed to this fo a a term of three years by Governo n Thomas Waller, and then reappointe " for two more terms of the same lcngt $ under other gubernatorial administra .s tions.
 'o He Is the second oldest living 3S
 degree Mason in Norwich and a pa:
 high priest of Franklin chapter an
 past commander of Columbian con
 mandery. No 4, Knights Templar. Ft S many years he has been secretary ar
 treasurer of the Twenty-siXth Reg ,e mental association.
 His son Frank, who is a native
 this city, graduated from thesNorwic
 Free Academy and then studied f. IS the drug business at the College : Pharmacy, in New York, entering bu = mess with his father as soon as Lo had completed his studies.
 eI For the last four or five years sn postal ub-station was located at u w Sevin drug store. This was discol Ie tinued the first of this month. F | many years the Sevin store has Ike U the official weather records for the ci w which have been published daily + The Bulletin, giving the temperatu iil and barometer records. These ha
 been kept by a registering thermor e- eter which gave the maximum al ue minimum temperatures for each da
 and by a mercurial barometer whi
 gives the most accurate records of t
 barometrIc changes day by day. en n@4nr- AItINK nEHTnD