Hiram Shorey, like Paul Harris, was a small town New Englander whose antecedents had come out to America in the 17h century. Several people have been tracking Hiram's family history in particular George Rogers of Litchfield, Maine.
One starting point for a search were Hiram's obituaries; in the Chicago Daily News for Friday 31 March, 1944, Hiram Shorey was described as being "aged 82, a Loop tailor for half a century and one of the founders, in 1905, of…
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