Vrest Orton

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Vrest Orton


Born
in Hardwick, Vermont, The United States
September 03, 1897

Died
December 02, 1986

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Kenneth Vrest Orton (September 3, 1897 – December 2, 1986) was a writer and businessman who co-founded the Vermont Country Store with his wife, Mildred Ellen Orton.

Life
Orton was born to and on September 3, 1897, in Hardwick, Vermont.[1] His family later moved to his grandfather's residence in North Calais. There, he participated in his grandfather's business.[2] He served as a Medical Corps sergeant in France during World War I.[3]

In 1925, he moved to New York, where he came into contact with H. L. Mencken's American Mercury Magazine, and he worked as a publicist.[4] Over the course of the 1920s and 1930s, he became friends with several authors, including Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Robert Frost. In the early 1920s,
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