After a spell working with Berketex (then a wholesale house) as an assistant within its ready-to-wear department, he showed his first collection in 1963 in a borrowed space.
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He moved to New York City in 1867 and was employed as a financial clerk in a wholesale house. He returned to Rome, New York, in 1868 and continued the practice of law. He served as member of the Board of Aldermen of Rome 1874-1876.
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The Wholesale House was an innovative project for that time: the very large building was designed not only by many companies, but included a complete route through the building. During the construction phase in 1951 a grand cafe-restaurant, conference center etc. was installed. The building itself was completed in 1953.
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After coming to Pennsylvania, Foster became involved in the mercantile industry in Bloomsburg and Berwick with his brother. In 1826 Foster ceased his work in this industry and moved to Philadelphia. There he temporarily received a position in a wholesale house. In 1827 he moved to the community of Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe).
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Francis Brown Stockbridge (April 9, 1826April 30, 1894) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. Stockbridge was born in Bath, Maine, the son of a physician, Dr. John Stockbridge, and attended the common schools there. He clerked at a wholesale house in Boston 1843-1847. He then moved to Chicago and opened a lumber yard.
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William Benjamin Bashford (1875–1955) was an English-born merchant, farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Rosthern in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1914 to 1921 as a Liberal. He was born in London, the son of Reverend Bob Bashford and Ellen Mary Brown. After completing his schooling, Bashford worked as a clerk in a wholesale house.
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However, Frothingham re-established himself by setting up his own hardware business in partnership with his younger brother, Joseph May Frothingham, who died in 1832. In 1836, Frothingham went into partnership with William Workman, and their firm became the largest hardware and iron wholesale house in British North America. By 1853, Frothingham & Workman had moved to larger premises and started to manufacture some of their own merchandise.
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Pearce returned to Osage Mills in 1867 to rebuild his home, mill, and store. In 1872 he left to teach mathematics at the University of Arkansas, resigning this position in 1874 and returning to Osage Mills. From 1870 to 1884 he was employed by a Kansas City wholesale house. Later he moved to Texas for his wife's health and worked as a land examiner.
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John Gibb (1829-1905) John Gibb (1829 - August 27, 1905) was a cofounder of the dry goods house of Mills & Gibb. Gibb was born in 1829 in Forfarshire, Scotland. He left his father's farm at the age of 14 to apprentice for four years in a draper’s shop at Montrose, Angus. Later, he went to London and was in the largest wholesale house in that city.
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In 1853, he moved to San Francisco to open his own dry goods business. Jacob Davis was a tailor who often bought bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co. wholesale house. In 1872, Davis wrote to Strauss asking to partner with him to patent and sell clothing reinforced with rivets. The copper rivets were to reinforce the points of stress, such as pocket corners and at the bottom of the button fly.
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In 1866, more than a year after the Civil War, Struble went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained about a year as bookkeeper in the wholesale house of J.H. Teasdale & Co., where his uncle was the senior partner. He then moved to Iowa where he attended law school. After admission to the bar he became a practicing attorney in Polo, Illinois in 1870. In 1872, Struble moved to Le Mars, Iowa.
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As a jobbing or wholesale house, they offered dry goods from American mills including flannel, percale, gingham and silk fabrics. They also offered finer articles of clothing from Europe including Irish and Scottish linens, hosiery and gloves from Saxony. In the early history of the firm, sales occurred only in the store itself and the items were packed by employees in the evening, for shipment. By 1887, they employed over 100 clerks and twelve travelling salesmen.
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The Old Charter brand was established in 1874 by Adam and Benjamin Chapeze, brothers operating under the name A. B. Chapeze, who were operating a distillery on the Bardstown branch of the L&N; Railroad.Liquor Store Magazine, February, 1970. Ben Chapeze traveled and pushed the brand and made it well known while his brother Adam managed the operation. Eventually sales were assigned under contract to Wright & Taylor, a Louisville wholesale house operated by John J. Wright and Marion E. Taylor.
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Besides giving instruction to the children, Hofmann took charge of the books of his employer. When in 1788 Baruch moved to Vienna and opened a wholesale house there, Hofmann was appointed manager of the entire business. Having received the same year a permit from the Austrian government to do business in Vienna, he chose the name "Isaak Löw Hofmann". On the death of Baruch he was made a partner in, and in 1794 became sole member of the firm which bore the name "Hofmann und Löwinger".
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He donated this property to benefit the schools of Wagener and the First Baptist Church. The Southern Railroad The little town grew when the Southern Railroad ran a line through to Batesburg. Nearly all of the towns that sprang up along the railroad wanted to use the last name of George Wagener, who was a strong supporter of the railroad and the owner of a wholesale house in Charleston. It was through the influence of J. A. Gunter, a prosperous local farmer, that the town received the honor of using this distinguished name.
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She married Mr. Michel, March 29, 1882, but the marriage lasted for less than one year. Being obliged to support herself, she went out as an advertising agent for a large wholesale house of Chicago, Illinois, and was the first woman in the U.S. to fill such a position. She then became a "drummer" (traveling commercial salesman), visiting the drug trade in the interests of an Eastern supply house. She was one of the first, if not the first, women sent out as an agent for staple articles, traveling from place to place with her trunk of samples.
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German- Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss started the business at the 90 Sacramento Street address in San Francisco and then moved the location to 62 Sacramento Street. In 1858, the company was listed as Strauss, Levi (David Stern & Levis Strauss) importers clothing ,etc. 63 & 65 Sacramento St. (Today, on the current grounds of the 353 Sacramento Street Lobby ) in the San Francisco Directory with Strauss serving as its sales manager and his brother-in-law, David Stern, as its manager. Jacob Davis, a Latvian-Jewish immigrant, was a Reno, Nevada tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth made from denim from Levi Strauss & Co.'s wholesale house.
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The Apostolic Faith Mission on Azusa Street, now considered to be the birthplace of Pentecostalism The group from Bonnie Brae Street eventually discovered an available building at 312 Azusa Street () in downtown Los Angeles, which had originally been constructed as an African Methodist Episcopal Church in what was then an impoverished part of town. The rent was $8.00 per month. A newspaper referred to the downtown Los Angeles building as a "tumble down shack". Since the church had moved out, the building had served as a wholesale house, a warehouse, a lumberyard, stockyards, a tombstone shop, and had most recently been used as a stable with rooms for rent upstairs.
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Rasmussen Rasmussen was born on May 12, 1901, in Tyler, Lincoln County, Minnesota, the son of Rasmus S. and Mary Elizabeth Rasmussen, both of Denmark. When Carl Christian was sixteen years old, he borrowed "a hundred dollars" to attend a barber college, after which he used the proceeds from barbering to finish South High School (Minneapolis) and Minneapolis Business College. He was first a retail clerk, then a salesman for a Minneapolis hardware firm and then purchasing agent for a wholesale house. He worked for a subsidiary of International Harvester as a traveler in three Midwestern states and then in 1923 became part owner of a retail hardware business in Lakeside, California.
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