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GEORGE I. ROSSITER is a prominent young druggist, a social companion and an enterprising business man of Brocton. He is a son of Charles and Ellen (Risley) Rossiter, and was born in Pomfret, Chautauqua county, New York, September 30, 1865. The paternal great-grandfather, Elisha Rossiter, was a native of Rochester, and was a pioneer of Chautauqua county. He came from Rochester with an ox team, and settling at Pomfret, followed farming until his death, which occurred in 1883. Charles Rossiter was born in Pomfret town in 1845, and until 1887 pursued farming as a means of gaining a livelihood. He still owns his farm in Pomfret, but moved to Brocton four years ago, where he now lives, being interested in a vineyard in the town of Portland. He married Ellen Risley, of Pomfret town in 1864, by whom he had one child. She is a member of the Methodist church, and is now 46 years old.

George I. Rossiter was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, afterwards attending the State Normal School at Fredonia. In 1886 he engaged in the general mercantile business at Portland, following it for one year, and then came to Brocton and opened a drug store in which he has been very successful. He carries a large and assorted stock in the fine brick building erected in 1887 by his father, and has a large trade which he is careful to satisfy with superior articles and drugs.

Politically he affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of Brocton Lodge, No. 284, Knights of Pythias. He is a good young business man, and has many friends around the locality in which he lives.