History
George M. Landers, born in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1813, came to New Britain at the age of sixteen and learned the carpentry trade. In 1842 he built a shop on East Main Street and began manufacturing hardware, and his company was later renamed Landers, Frary and Clark. A member of the Walnut Hill Park Company and a leading nineteenth century industrialist, he also served New Britain as a director of the New Britain Gas Company and New Britain National Bank, an original member of the sewer commission, a member of the school board, and an important force in the construction of the Civil War Soldiers Monument. Active in politics as well, he served three terms each in the State House of Representatives and State Senate, was twice appointed State Bank Commissioner, and was elected to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth Congress in 1874 and 1876.
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