George Huntington Hartford founded The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in 1859 with George Gilman in Elmira, New York. He was born in Augusta, Maine. His sons George and John were on the cover of "Time" magazine in November 1950. The magazine wrote that next to General Motors, the A&P sold more goods than any other company in the world and had close to 16,000 stores in the USA. Wikipedia
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The Great American Tea Company is founded as a mail order business by tea and spice merchants George Huntington Hartford and George Gilman. www.aptea.com/history_timeline.asp
