Frederic Gore
{{Short description|American chemist}}
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| birth_date = 1860
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1930|1860}}
| death_place = Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.
| resting_place = Old Baptist Cemetery, Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.
| nationality = American
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| spouse = Angie T. Jordan (–1930; his death)
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Frederic E. Gore (1860–1930) was a 19th- and 20th-century chemist from Yarmouth, Maine. He became the manager of the Forest Paper Company, which was in business between 1874 and 1923. In 1909, it was the largest such mill in the world.
Life and career
Gore was born in 1860. He studied chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Volume 36, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, p. 325
He married Angie T. Jordan, and they lived at today's 1896-built 62 South Street in Yarmouth.[https://yarmouth.me.us/vertical/sites/%7B27541806-6670-456D-9204-5443DC558F94%7D/uploads/Complete_Matrix_USE.xlsx.pdf Architectural Survey Yarmouth, ME (Phase One, September, 2018] - Yarmouth's town website){{Cite web |last=Maine |first=Realty of |title=62 South Street Yarmouth, ME |url=https://realtyofmaine.com/listing/1311929/62-south-street-yarmouth-me-04096/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Realty of Maine |language=en-us}} The property is now known as the Frederic Gore House.[https://yarmouth.me.us/vertical/sites/%7B27541806-6670-456D-9204-5443DC558F94%7D/uploads/Conveyance_Memo_to_Planning_Board_9-17-20(5).pdf "Conveyance of Historic Preservation Program and Proposed Ordinance"] - Town of Yarmouth, September 2020, p. 23
In 1903, while assignor to S. D. Warren & Co., Gore had patented (number 725.071) cooking cellulose fiber. "The fiber is digested with caustic soda, diluted with spent soda liquor, afterwards transferring the dilute liquor from the fiber to reactivate contact with calcium hydroxide, then returning the liquor to the fiber, this maintaining the efficiency of the soda liquor."Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 25, Part 2, American Chemical Society (1903), p. 520
Gore became superintendent of Yarmouth's Forest Paper Company around the time of its being the largest such mill in the world.{{Cite book |title=Lockwood's Directory of the Paper and Stationery Trade |publisher=Vance Publishing Corporation |year=1921 |pages=102}}
In 1917, during the 22nd annual meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Gore was stated as having had 35 years of experience with digesters.Images of America: Yarmouth, Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002)
Death
Gore died in 1930, aged 69 or 70. He was interred in Yarmouth's Old Baptist Cemetery, around {{Convert|0.25|mi|km}} northwest of his home. His wife survived him by nine years; she was buried alongside him.[https://www.yarmouthmehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CemeteryRecords_000.pdf Cemetery Records] - Yarmouth Historical Society, p. 16 According to Yarmouth historian Alan M. Hall: "Mrs. Gore reportedly enjoyed [her] lifestyle, but lamented that they never had any children."
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Category:People from Yarmouth, Maine