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The company was founded in 1853 and associated with development of steam powered ships from the original crude efforts. [1] Originally Fletcher, Harrison & Co., the company was located on Hudson Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. They built engines for many famous Hudson River Day Line steamers and others, in both vertical walking beam and inclined ...
The company was well known for the quality of its publications, including many books on American history and contemporary literature. [5] As a bookseller, the firm was a dealer and leading authority in rare books. [1] As head of Dodd, Mead and Company, Frank Dodd established The Bookman in 1895, and The New International Encyclopedia in 1902.
The Centaur Company, founded in 1871, owned and marketed proprietary medicines, notably, the stimulant laxative Fletcher's Castoria and the ointment Centaur Liniment. The company is historically significant in that it was a driving force during the early development of mass marketing and advertising.
He married Jemima Elizabeth Bright (September 10, 1848, England - May 8, 1932, Manhattan, New York) [3] in 1866 (according to 1890 census records). He had three daughters who lived to adulthood, Mymie (My-me) (May 16, 1868, in Brooklyn, New York - May 28, 1958, in Pasadena, California) who married the Reverend William Morrison (October 5, 1863 - January 4, 1915) who was the priest at Trinity ...
Ships of the Fletcher destroyer class Name Hull no. Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned / Recommissioned Decommissioned Fate Fletcher DD-445 Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey: 2 October 1941 3 May 1942 30 June 1942 15 January 1947 Sold for scrap, 22 February 1972 [2] 3 October 1949 [3] 1 October 1969 Radford DD-446
Isaac D. Fletcher was an industrialist and art collector during the late 19th century, [15] [16] who was the president of the New York Coal Tar Company and the Barrett Manufacturing Company. [7] Fletcher purchased a land lot at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 79th Street from Henry H. Cook for $200,000 (equivalent to $7,559,200 in 2024) in 1897.
Finally, after a multi-year investigation by federal prosecutors in East New York, the FBI and Italian authorities – which included multiple wiretaps, search warrants, witness statements and ...
Grace Sutherland, about 1890. The Seven Sutherland Sisters was a family act from Niagara County, New York that performed worldwide to great acclaim. [4] Daughters of Fletcher and Mary (Brink) Sutherland, they started doing concerts with a brother in the early 1880s, and three years later the sisters were traveling with Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth."