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Norman Hamilton. From 1831 to his retirement about 1850 he was the town's most successful entrepreneur. John Penman. In 1868 he and his father established the Penman Manufacturing Company. After his father's death in 1881, John became the town's outstanding industrialist and citizen. He retired in 1906, and died in 1931.