I'm wondering if anyone has any information about the Ripton Bros. grocery that was located in Johnstown in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Several of my great-grandfather Benjamin Henry Ripton's brothers founded the store - in a biography of former Johnstown mayor Percy Ripton in a NYS history, Mayor Ripton attributed the actual start to his uncle William A. Ripton, Benjamin Henry's youngest brother. Other brothers who may have been involved would have been James Hunter Ripton, John Clarence Ripton, and Walter N. Ripton. I don't know the actual start-date, and I'm not sure when it would have closed. William A. Ripton was in North Adams, MA, in 1900 running a store there with his then brother-in-law Richard Ansell, and later he moved to Amsterdam, NY, Kingston, NY, and finally Florida, and I don't know how long the rest of the family might have kept the store going. I've found ads in the "Broadalbin Herald" from 1908. At that time the store was located at 40 West Main St. in Johnstown. I'm writing a family history of my Ripton family and would appreciate anything anyone could tell me about this family business. Thank you. Joanne Gaudio