Submitter's First Name
Roger
Submitter's Last Name
Plante
Relationship to Honoree
Grandson
Submitter's Phone Number
4017697444
Submitter's Email Address
RogerPlante10@gmail.com
Mill Employee First Name
Wilfred
Mill Employee Last Name
Fontaine
Mill Employee Birth Date
Mill Employee Birthplace
Rhode Island
Mill Employee Workplace 1
Woonsocket Spinning
Job Title 1
Spinner
Mill Employee Photo
Mill Employee Ethnic Identity
French Canadian
Mill Employee House Worship
St. Ann's Parish
Biography Text
Wilfred was born in Rhode Island in 1881 to Edmond and Rosilda Girouard who had come to Woonsocket from St. Denis, Canada. Wilfred swept floors at the old Clinton Mill by age 14. As an adult he worked as a spinner and a picker operator at the Social Mill.
Wilfred married Marie Arlena Arcand on August 24, 1909 in the St. Famille Church in Woonsocket. They had three children and lived all their married life between Cumberland and Elm Streets.