St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-20
MOVES LIKE CLOCK.
The Growing House of Farwell
OZmun, Kirk q Co.

Farwell, Ozmun. Kirk & Co., 254
NJ. Ozmun, president; F. P. Strong,
vice president; William T. Miller, Sec
rotary; K. A. Kirk, treasurer-Began
business as partnership in 1892, under
the name of Farwell, Ozmun & Jackson,
and formed itself into a corporation
with the above title in 1887.
1t is the largest concern in this
line of business in the Northwest
The building it occupies covers
four lots, is five stories high above
the basement. and is crowded from top
to bottom with everything properly per-
tanning to the hardware trade; that
is to say, shelf ware, cutlery, hOusekeep-
ing articles, sporting goods, mechanics
tools, butchers tools, etc. Besides this
building it occupies warehouse, S0X120.
in the Sixth ward, where the heavy
goods, handled in carload lots, are
stored. The store on Third street is
provided with two elevators, operated
by the company's own steam engine for
use in receiving and delivering goods.
The same engine supplies the building
throughout with heat and light, being
connected with a dynamo for the latter
purpose.
The company has 100 regular en-
plOyeS, with twenty travelling statesmen,
who visit the trade regularly in every
state from here to the Pacific ocean,
and its business along the lines of
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern railroads has grown so great as to
place it in the front rank of the whole
sale houses of the country. Its system
of handling its intricate and enormous
business has attained such perfection
that everything moves like clOckwOrk.
and with the facilities at its command
the company transactS it more promptly
than any other house in its line in this
section of the Union.
Mr.. OZmun was born in TOmpkinS
county, NeWYork. He came to Minnesota
in 1856, and engaged in the hardware
business in Rochester in 1863 continuing
there till 1882, when he came to st. Paul
to take position in the firm which pre-
coded this corporation.
Mr.. Miller was born in Western New
York, but began his career in the hard
ware business in that state, where he
remained number of years. He left
that position to take charge of large
mandatory of harvesting machinery
at Albion, n. Y, and was employed
there five years, at the end of which
time. in 1887, he came to St Paul and
formed connection with the corpora
ton of which he is still member.
r. A. Kirk, the treasurer, is an Ohio
man, and is not only thorough-gOing
and reliable in his business habits, but
a public-spilited citizen as well, whose
interests are identified with ST. Paul.
Since he took up his residence here he
has won hosts of friends amongst all
classes of our people with whom he has
come in contact.
+. 2. Strong, the vice president, is
son of the late C. ID. Strong, the
founder of one of the earliest hardware
houses in the city, and an incorpoIat
of the Chamber of Commerce of this
city in 1867 MIR. f. P, being brought
up in the business, understands it fully.
Like his associates, he is a mer-
chant i'm every sense of the word,
and the reputation of the house with
which be Is connected is a matter of
first importance in his estimation. He
is likewise held in high esteem as
citizen.
Mr.. Strong was born in Boston in
1877, and he came to ST. Paul in 1860. or
just before the outbreak of the
war OF the rebellion. He early
identified himself with the hard
ware trade, and in 1865 he was
engaged By his father. G.. D. Strong.
He continued until 1880 in this line.
when he became member of the firm.
In 1888. when Strong, Hackett & Co.
were incorporated, he was elected treas
urer of the company. In 1859 he sold
out his interest and entered upon his
IkrpCpnt dutipS