Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...father was a merchant, and as trade then formed the means of communication between different parts of the world, Francis undoubtedly learned in his ten years of experience in his father's business, much of the condition of society in the outside world...
...Cooperative Society is making arrangements for pleasanter quarters for the tailoring department. A new room, near the old one, has been secured and is being altered to meet the needs of the society. It is the intention to carry on a regular merchant tailoring business. The changes will probably be effected in a few days...
...Bridge fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, but lack of funds prevented him from entering. He established himself as a commission merchant in Boston, and in 1841 was appointed Principal Appraiser of the port of Boston. This position he hied until 1853, when he was appointed Appraiser General at San Francisco, where he was head of the whole Pacific coast department. In 1871 he retired from public life. He was all his life a generous and active philanthrophist. To his native town of Dresden, Me., he gave over $12,000 for the promotion of its religious, educational...
...Quincey was the fifth of a family of six children. His father was a Manchester merchant and died at the age of thirty-nine, leaving an estate valued at thirty thousand pounds. At the age of six, De Quincey was sorely grieved by the death of an elder sister, who had read to him the story of the Arabian Nights, which aroused in him such a great spirit of imagination. He stole into the death chamber of his sister and received those impressions, which make up his charming and vivid narrative published many years later...
...magnificent academy building of Pentelican marble, costing $1,000,000, and given by a wealthy Greek merchant has been erected at Athens...