The life of a plodder : Fred Gorton's 95 years
(Book)

Note on inside cover reads: "An account compiled from [Fred Gorton's] memories and diaries by his granddaughter Kathy Lynn Gorton Emerson".

"When he was in his eighties, Fred Gorton wrote his autobiography as a series of essays. After his death, his granddaughter inherited those handwritten pages, edited them, and distributed the result to Fred's family members. Later she expanded the manuscript, adding some background about the area Fred lived in and a few notes to clarify things he got wrong, and made the text available to the general public on her webpage. Now, for the first time, this expanded and updated edition is available in book format. Fred Gorton was interested in the doings of his neighbors, making this a treasure trove for genealogists and historians alike. His memories provide a firsthand look at the town of Liberty, New York, its citizens, and its environs from the mid-1870s through the mid-1960s...As a self-described 'Plodder', he worked as everything from a farmhand to the first RFD carrier for Ferndale, New York, delivering mail with a horse-drawn buggy and later in a model T. One of his side jobs was making piecework picture frames with 'Liberty, NY' painted on them to sell to tourists" --,Publisher's description.