Rotarians know the story of the founding of Rotary. Paul Harris was an attorney new to Chicago. He met with three other men who also had come to Chicago from small American towns. Hiram Elmer Shorey, a merchant tailor, came from Litchfield, Maine. The other two men who were in the founding group were Silvester Schiele, a coal merchant, and Gustavus Loehr, a mining engineer. Bob Kahlo recently visited Shorey's childhood home in Litchfield.
To see a picture of the four founders of Rotary, visit http://www.historicalsocietyoflitchfieldmaine.org/HiramShorey.htm