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Ames & Co.
| Name | Ames & Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Eleventh Avenue 565-569 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Holz- und Kohlehandlung |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse (um 1884): Nos. 565, 567 und 569 Eleventh Avenue, Ecke 43d Street. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 250] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1879 |
Gründung |
| 1880 |
Auflösung der Firma "Ames & Cooney". Mr. Ames wird Alleininhaber |
| 1883 |
Mr. Ames nimmt W. G. Crossman als Teilhaber auf, verbunden mit der Firmenänderung in "Ames & Co." |
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| Holzhandel |
1884 |
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1884 |
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vmtl. mit Brennholz |
| Kohlehandel |
1884 |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | Prominent among the active and enterprising coal merchants of this city is the firm of Ames & Co. The business was original! y founded in 1879, at Nos. 177,179,181 and 183 Tenth Avenue, corner 21st Street, and which is still a depot and office of the present proprietors. The business was first carried on under the name and style of Ames & Cooney. In 1880 that co-partnership was dissolved, Mr. Ames continuing alone, until, in 1883, he took Mr. W. G. Crossman into partnership, under the firm name of Ames & Co. The same year they opened their yard and office at the very eligible location, corner of Eleventh Avenue and 43d Street. Here in a yard seventy-five feet by one hundred they carry a full stock of all favorite brands of hard and soft burning coal, inclusive of Lehigh, Locust, Mountain, Wilkesbarre, Lackawanna, Pitston and the popular Red-Ash coal. They fill all orders in the promptest manner, from a ton to cargo lots, in any standard size required. The firm also makes a specialty o£ wood, inclusive of pine, oak or hickory, and in both the departments of their business control a large and growing trade among the best classes of the community. Mr. Ames is a native of New Jersey, and a gentleman of a wide range of experience in the coal trade, with fine connections, and watchful for the best interests of his firm's numerous patrons. Mr. Crossman was born on Long Island, and is likewise an enterprising business man, and a popular member of commercial circles. The firm is noted for its honorable methods, and faculties for promptly filling all orders, and the present proprietors are known only to be respected throughout the community at large. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 250] |
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