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Looker Brothers
| Name | Looker Brothers |
| Ortssitz | Newark (New Jersey) |
| Straße | Broad Street 845 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Möbel- und Teppichgeschäft |
| Anmerkungen | Manufacturers of and Dealers in Furniture, Carpets, and Oil-cloths |
| Quellenangaben | [Industries of New Jersey, Essex County V (1882) 681] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1842 |
Gründung durch P. G. McDermit |
| 1857 |
A. T. Looker wird Teilhaber von McDermit |
| Jan. 1882 |
Leitung durch A. T. und J. H. Looker |
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Bem. |
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Kommentar |
| Möbelhandel |
1882 |
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1882 |
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| Teppichhandel |
1882 |
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1882 |
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| ZEIT | 1882 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The business, as carried on since January, 1882, was originally founded forty years ago by Mr. P. G. McDermit, who retired at the opening of the present year, when Messrs. Looker Bros, became sole proprietors. The firm now consists of A. T. and J. H. Looker, Mr. A. T. Looker having been associated with Mr. McDermit from 1857, and the house to-day is the oldest furniture and carpet establishment in the city of Newark. Mr. J. H. Looker has had an experience in this line of business for fifteen years and is fully posted in every detail. He also, as well as his brother, is a young man of excellent business (qualities and spares no efibrts to please and accommodate customers. The building occupied is a fourstory brick, 25 x 200 feet in extent, with a factory in the rear. About twenty experienced hands are employed in the different departments of the house, the products of which mostly consist of upholstering and finishing of furniture. The stock carried is one of the largest in this line of trade and is estimated at $30,000, and consists of parlor furniture, which is made a specialty and is manufactured on the premises, and a general assortment of every class of household furniture, carpets, oil-cloths, etc., etc. An extensive trade is established and goods from 60.000 to 100.000 per annum are disposed of, a wholesale and retail trade being done. Messrs. Looker Bros, are gentlemen of the highest standing and residents of Newark, and thorough, practical business men. Mr. A. T. Looker having been nearly all his life at the business, the public therefore have every guarantee that nothing but fair dealing and strict integrity governs all the business transactions of these gentlemen. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of New Jersey, Essex County V (1882) 681] |
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