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Henry J. Cordy was born in 1881 in Suffield. He attended school in Eustis until 1898, when he started to work in Capelton for the Nichols Chemical Company, which exploited the Capelton mine at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Henry J. Cordy was married in 1908 in Guelph, Ont. to Florence May Cotton whom he met when she was living with her family in Albert Mines. They had three children. In Capelton, Henry J. Cordy was an office clerk from 1898 to 1905, chemist from 1905 to 1923, and superintendent from 1923 to 1925. In 1925, he was transferred to Sulphide, Ont., in 1941 to Valleyfield, and in 1946 to Montreal. He retired in 1952, after 54 years of service for the Nichols Chemical Company. Henry J. Cordy was a member of the Society of Chemical Industry and of the Chemical Institute of Canada. In 1949, the latter recognized his contribution to the profession of chemist by electing him Fellow of the Institute. Henry J. Cordy died in Valleyfield in 1972. Amateur photographer, Henry J. Cordy took photographs which depict the community life and the mining sites and chemical works of Capelton and Eustis at the beginning of the 20th century.