The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-22

There is no one better able to judge a
carpet than he, while of oilcloth, hnoleum
and mating he has an extensive knowl-
edge.
LORILhARDS. AND HOFFMANS.
THE Lorillard family has continued the
business founded by it's. progenitors. Pc
ter Lorillard started little snuff mill
on the Bronx river early in the CEN
tGry, and it is still to be seen there. He
opened a snuff and general store on
Chatham street, now Park row, near the
corner Of Duane Here the snuff made on
the Bronx was sold, together with clay
twist
The retail branch of the business was
given up some time since, but is still
cess1r of the Lorillards. The snuff
grinding business has been transferred
from the Bronx to Jersey City, where the
immense Lorillard tobacco factory en-
ploys thousands Of hands.
he distinguished Hoffman family,
Whlch mas given one governor to New
York state and has mingled its blood
with many of the leaefng families in
New York society. was settled in trade
IN this city over century ago. They
dealt in groceries.
way where Russell Sage who by the
way, was himself a grocer in his early
days, gay :, now W has his office. That is where
ih the city y d@irect9ry @ or Of 1855 locates the bus
|
u John street. Mrs Hoffman served the
customers herself dealing out tea, sugar,
candles and salt, and she bore the repu-
tation Of being a woman of enterprise
and fair dealing.
PUBLIC BENEFACToRS.
The fortunes of the, Cooper-H Hewitt
FAMILY were founded by old Peter Cooper
Whom many residents of New York re-
member to have seen riding about the
CITY In queer old buggy, wearing big
steel \spectacles and whiskers under his
olence. 49,.
I'm early life he went into the glue
business, and the industry he founded is
still carried on, although its odoriferous
Product- is now described as gelatine.'
Abram s. Hewitt became tutor In the
ne and Edward Cooper, son of Peter
! cooper, have been mayor of New York
9eter 5.e Cooper. howeNeE was the most
distinguished member Of the family, and
his pubic benefactians will make him
long remembered ~, -
The founders oftdhe old New York
aasr Remsen family were5.in the grocery bust
ness a century ago.s5At No. Z Whitehall
street the Remseds, W. and j., sold sugar
ana tea, soap, -candles. beeswax, mo-
iaasses, ss SNUFF, m butter,a3lat I'd and hard tack.
Another one of the Relnsens, John, was
in business at the same time 1856, as a
genera! merchant, It. No. % King street;
1nal Mnlle Henry Remsen conducted a gen
! over square The family was thus well
| represented In the commercial life Of
New York century ago They were at
| New York.
SMALL BEGINNINGS TO FORTUNE.
The Havemeyers, like Napoleon, were
thelr own ancestors From a small iron
pot IN which they began boiling sugar
nrenorFia rre1r TFie1nery has grown to- mammoth
! barrels of sugar per week We're turned
guy py the original refinery in the eastern
Qlstrict or Broeklyn, but now their in
| terests scontroi ;tIie market of the entire
| country east of the Rockies. They are
constantly investing the profits in New
York city real estate
olddlt dhe - lawrence a!1. family is one Of the
oluest 1amll1es in New York. A century
ago, II yeu were furnishing a house and
ASKED Wheref you weuld buy@your china
toId H1id sl glassware, everybody would have
20 at 81 N6 e h oSes 9fGee # @ RehSTd T5i
! Richard Lawrence, swIo sold Jugs. mugs.
pSns' pSTus' eeuspidors and other useful arti-
cles e. OF china and glass, accumulated
lett a large family: of children. These.
na.,n Mn tnelT descendsnts, have spread the
name or Lawreneezthrolghou the ranks
present day point TO more than one hero
country.
HELD MANY HIGH PLACES
"Ex-Gov. Levi p Morton began his
commercial life. as a tailor at Hanover,
n. H, where he manufactured clothes
Tor the Dartmouth college students Han
over Is but a small town, not having
even railroad station. and Dartmouth
college gives it the only social life it
possesses Gov. Morton was the leading
merchant Of the place
There are people in New York today
who claim to possess clothes made by
him during these early days. He soon
LETT Hanover, and went into the dry
goods business; From this he realized a
fortune. and then he went Into finance.