Fred Plimpton returned a lost pocketbook

Fred Plimpton declined the reward offered by Mrs. B. Clute.

The article in the Courant referred to “Mr. F. Plimpton of the Plimpton Envelope company,” and this could be either Frederic W. Plimpton or Frederick Plimpton.  Here I lean toward it being Frederick.

1. Mrs. B. Clute was from New York.  I’ll likely never figure out who she was!
2. Frederick Plimpton was not Frederic W. Plimpton’s son – Frederick’s father was Daniel Bacon Plimpton, and his brother was James Manning Plimpton.

Unattributed.  “Lost and found,” Hartford Daily Courant, September 25, 1875, page 2.