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E. Clinton & Company
| Name | E. Clinton & Company |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | Market Street 1008 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Bürstengeschäft |
| Anmerkungen | Auch in der 8 South Tenth Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 133] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1840 |
Gründung |
| 20.05.1842 |
Der Inhaber E. Clinton heiratet Miss Nagle aus Philadelphia |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Handel mit Bürsten |
1840 |
Gründung |
1891 |
[Philadelphia] |
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| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | After an interesting interview with Mr. E. Clinton a few weeks ago we realized more than ever before the importance of the brush industry, and in that connection the value of that much maligned animal, the hog, and the number of uses to which bristles are adapted. Mr. Clinton remarked that most of us used five kinds of brushes before going to breakfast, the tooth, the nail, the hair, the shoe and the clothes brush. Then come the dusting and sweeping brush, the paint,
the varnish and numerous kinds of artists' brushes, etc. Clinton & Co. make more kinds of brushes than any other house in the world, and are the largest firm in their line in the United States. They are ever on the watch for novelties and usually the first to invent or bring out new styles. They spent over ten thousand dollars in their Centennial exhibit to show what America could do in the brush industry and received certificate for unequalled excellence. Some forty years ago they received a medal from the World's Fair in London. To show the high grade of their manufactures it is worth stating that the representative of Kent & Co., one of the most famous English brush manufacturers, who date back over three hundred years, requested some samples of Clinton & Co.'s paint and varnish brushes to show his firm, who acknowledged that they were the best in the world. Mr. Clinton said he always studied as to what a brush had to do and how to do it best, and any brush bearing their stamp is not only unsurpassed but unequalled. He is an expert judge of bristles and acknowledged to be the best buyer of the article in the United States. The firm was established in 1840, but Mr. Clinton himself has been brush making fifty-nine years this March, 1891. When making for others he took pains to give the best work possible, and to this owes his success, his business being constantly on the increase and at any time hardly able to fill his orders. Though Hearing seventy years of age he still takes an active interest and superintendence, and in every respect is one of those merchants of whom Philadelphia is justly proud. Forty-nine years ago, May 20, 1842, Mr. Clinton was married to Miss Xagle, of Philadelphia, and has a family of three sons, Edwin G., Leon S. and Winfield Clinton. The stores and offices of the firm are No. 1008 Market street and No. 8 South Tenth street. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 132] |
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