Word: tillinghast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many a wife who suddenly finds herself a widow, tall and comely Margaret Chandler Porter had a tough choice. She could sell her husband's business, or try to run it-at the risk of running it into the ground. The business Claude Tillinghast Porter left behind when he died in 1946 was a wholesale paint firm (whose slogan was "The Painter's Friend"), the St. Louis outlet of his brother's thriving Porter Paint Co. of Louisville. Margaret Porter decided...