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The Story of My Childhood
trouble and difficult to understand. My physical growth had not met their expectations nor their hopes. I grew slowly and was still a "little girl" in appearance. This went to show how positive the early check had been, and how slowly the repairs were made, for it was said that I gained an inch in height between the ages of twenty and twenty-one.
The firm of my brothers, S. & D.
Barton, had added to their ever increasing
business the manufacture of
cloth. A factory had been erected
and a partnership entered into with
Messrs. Paul and Samuel Parsons,
two elegant gentlemen among the
earlier manufacturers of satinet in
this country, and the new factory was
known as "The Satinet Mill of North
