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Jeremiah Skidmore's Sons
| Name | Jeremiah Skidmore's Sons |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broad Street 7 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Kohlenhändler |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse (um 1884): Hauptbüros: No. 7 Broad Street und No. 184 Fourth Ave. Ecke Thirteenth Street. Zweigbüros: No. 338 Cherry Street und Fuß der East Eighteenth Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 224] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1808 |
Gründung der Firma "Lang & Co." (gefolgt von den Firmen: "Lang & Randolph", "Stewart F. Randolph & Co." und "Randolph & Skid") |
| 1878 |
Gründung |
| 1883 |
Tod von Joseph E. Skidmore. William L. Skidmore und Mr. William Skidmore Barrett (ein Enkel des Verstorbenen) übernehmen die Firma. |
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Kommentar |
| Kohlenhandel |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
Coal Dealers. |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | A sketch of unusual historical value in this review of the rise and progress of New York's business interests is that of the leading firm of Jeremiah Skidmore's Sons, the oldest-established concern in the country, and which has since its origin done the largest retail coal business in New York City. This business was founded by Lang & Co. fully seventy-five years ago, and before anthracite coal was discovered in the United States. In those early days all the coal the firm sold it imported from England at heavy expense. The firm of Lang & Randolph next succeeded, and was again followed by that of Stewart F. Randolph & Co., which in turn gave place to the firm of Randolph & Skid more. All the foregoing changes were created by the deaths of partners. To the last-mentioned firm succeeded the copartnership formed by the late Mr Jeremiah Skidmore with his sons under the name and style of Jeremiah Skidmore & Sons, and which was long familiar to the present generation Since 1878, the year of the lamented decease of Mr. Jeremiah Skidmore, the business has been corned on under the name of Jeremiah Skidmore's Sons, the partners having been Mr. Joseph E. Skidmore, who is now deceased - died December, 1883 - Mr. William L. Skidmore, and Mr. William Skidmore Barrett, a grandson of the late head of the house. The firm carries on the business upon a mo~t extensive scale, having ample capital at command, and numerous offices and yards. The main offices are at No, 7 Broad Street, in the Drexel Building, convenient to the firm's large customers down town, and at corner of Fourth Avenue and Thirteenth Street, where they have a yard the most directly central to the very heart of the-city of any in New York. Branch offices and large yards are situated respectively at No. 338 Cherry Street and foot of East Eighteenth Street, while their main coal-depot and wharves are located at Thirty-fifth Street and First Avenue, East River. This is the largest coal-yard in New York. They annually handle tens of thousands of tons of all descriptions of coal, doing some wholesale, but principally the finest class of retail, trade, and employing a large f orce of men and teams. They deal in English and American canuel and Orrell coals; Lehigh, Locust Mountain, red-ash, and other free-burning coals; likewise in pine, oak, and hickory wood. The members of the firm are gentlemen of high social and business standing, and their house is in every respect the representative institution in the coal trade of the metropolis. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 224] |
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