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E. B. Bishop Sons Co.
| Name | E. B. Bishop Sons Co. |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Grand Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maultier-Exporteur |
| Anmerkungen | Stallungen: Grand und Bishop Streets |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1909) 114] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1835 |
Gründung der Maultierhandlung in New Haven, Connecticut, durch Elias B. Bishop |
| 1851 |
Elias B. Bishop verlagert seinen Maultierhandel von New Haven nach Jersey City, und seine Söhne setzen das Unternehmen fort. |
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Kommentar |
| Export von Maultieren |
1835 |
Beginn vmtl. (Gründung) |
1909 |
[Jersey City of to-day (1909)] |
Insbes. für Zuckerplantage in den Südstaaten, Westindien und Südafrika |
| ZEIT | um 1909 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The mule yard of E. B. Bishop Sons Co. is the largest of its kind and the only one east of Pittsburg. Elias B. Bishop established the concern at New Haven, Conn, in 1835. In 1851 he moved to Jersey City and his sons have been
carrying on business at the same spot ever since. The business is now a stock company, of which David R. Bishop is president and his son, Edwin M. Bishop, secretary. The principal business of the company is the exportation of mules to the West Indias, the South American states and and South Africa, where they are principally used on sugar plantations. Every year thousands of these animals are shipped to the tropics. It is estimated that this company
has handled over a quarter of a million mules since it went into business in this city. To-day orders are received from all parts of the world from persons who have heard of the reliability and facilities of this firm or have done business with it for many years. The yards are situated at Grand and Bishop Streets, Jersey City, where there is room for the stabling of 10,000 mules. The establishment is divided into many small yards and stables in which the mules are segregated and have every comfort that an animal requires. The great mule breeding states are Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, which centres are visited regularly for supplies by David A. Bishop, who is interested in one of the great mule concerns of St. Louis, the principle mule centre in the United States. The entire export business in mules from New York and all Eastern ports is now in the hands of E. B. Bishop Sons Co., and the immense volume of their business can be easily understood, as the demand for mules, both locally and abroad, is constantly increasing. In 1897 there were $631.904 worth of mules exported. In 1899 these figures rose to over 2.000.000, and in 1900 they reached the total of 4.757.892. Eighty thousand mules were shipped to South Africa alone for military purposes during the Boer war. Careful breeding distinguisnes the mules that are now being raised. This is a science of the day, no less than the breeding of fine horse stock. For draught purposes, Spanish jacks are crossed with fine Clydesdale or Percheron mares and produce some splendid stock. Dr. Lyman Atwater, who occupied a position as Professor at Princeton for over thirty years, was an uncle of the president of this company, David A. Bishop. Upon his father's side he traces his ancestry back to the year 1484 in Kent, England. On the Atwater side Mrs. Elias B. Bishop, the mother of David A. Bishop, is directly descended from Thomas Atwater of Lenham, Kent, England, whose will, dated October 5, 1484, is still on file in Canterbury. Later wills are also recorded in Kent proving the descent for five generations to John Atwater, whose death in 1636 caused his three unmarried children, Joshua, David and Anne, to invest their patrimony in the scheme of Eaton and Davenport for founding a new colony in America. David Atwater was the founder of the American branch of the line and was born in Lenham, England in 1615. He was one of the first planters of New Haven, and in the first division of lands among the settlers a farm was assigned him in "The Neck," as the tract between Mill and Quinnipack Rivers was called, and upon which he lived until his death. The eldest son in each of the five generations descending from him lived and died upon part of this original tract. Edwin N. Bishop, secretary of the company, is the son of David A. Bishop, the president, was born in Jersey City and educated at the Hasbrouck Institute. He also attended Stevens College. John Bishop, who was born in England, came to America a few years earlier than the founder of the American branch. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1909) 114] |
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