When Nathaniel Norton--who had studied law at Yale but became the head of the real estate department of Met Life instead--bought a house in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1908, he may or may not have imagined that his family would occupy it uninterrupted for four generations.
To us, it's inconceivable.
It wasn't unheard-of then.
This book describes in intimate, highly readable detail what being in such a family was like.
It is a very old family.
Norton was born in 1839, .