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- According to the Augusta Directory, Barthelemi owned a grocery store --Toulouse and Arbour -- with Alfred J. TOULOUSE. It was located at 39 Washington Street in Augusta, ME. The two of them operatedit from about 1921 until Barthelemi's death in 1936. Alfred then continued the business under his own name until about 1969. In 1967, Alfred shared the building space with Toulouse and Dowling Real Estate. In 1971, the address was a vacant store front.
According to his WWI Draft Registration, Barthelemi was of medium height and medium build with brown eyes and dark hair.
Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME) -- 23 Jan 1936
BARTHELEMI ARBOUR
Barthelemi Arbour, in business in this city for a number of years and widely known and liked, died early Wednesday at the Fairfield Sanitorium, aged 37 years. He was the junior member of the firm of Toulouse and Arbour, grocers with a store on Washington Street. His death followed a long illness. He was born 11 April 1898, in Joliet, Canada, the son of Barthelemi and Celina Boisvert Arbour. He came to Augusta as a young boy and attended school at St Augustine's parochial school and the Augusta public schools. For a time he was employed at the Edwards Manufacturing Company and for a number of years at the former Fuller-Holway Company warehouse on Water Street. In 1921, Mr. Arbour and Mr. Toulouse entered into a business together. The deceased made friends readily and had a wide circle of loyal friends. He belonged to a number of organizations, including the Society of Artisans, Foresters, Union St Jean de Baptist, and Society de St Jean de Baptist, also the Calumet Club. Besideshis wife who was Marie Gosselin, he is survived by six daughters, Jean d'Arc, Rita, Juliette, Gabriel, Georgette, Carmine, and one son, Robert; also three sisters Sister Barthelemi of Trois Rivieres, SisterGabriel ofValley Fields, PQ, and Mrs. Treffle Gilbert of this city, and three brothers, Joseph, Edward, and Hector Arbour, all of Augusta. The body is at the home at 4 Stewart Lane, and funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 8 o'clock at StAugustine's Catholic Church.
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