Cornelius Etheridge and LaForest Atwood Jones built this building about 1875. There was an earlier general store where the Hotel is today but it burned. Cornelius was a brother of Josiah and John in Wild Rose and Benjamin in Janesville. They came from Woodmancote in Gloucestershire. L.A, Jones was from Maine. He took over the store and later took Charles A Smart into the store. William A Knights (Co-founder of the Gideons) also was a clerk here.
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