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William Brooks refused to sell, telling his nephew the shoe industry had no future. [3] In 1975, the new owners were getting ready to sell or shut down the business. John Brooks, who stayed through the Irving Drew years as plant manager, bought the business back for $640,000, re-establishing The William Brooks Shoe Company in Nelsonville. [3]
William Brooks (1762–1846) was a supplier of cotton to spinners around Whalley and Blackburn.. He was the son of John Brooks of Waddington, Lancashire. He went into partnership with Roger Cunliffe, of the Cunliffe family of Great Harwood, who had been mercers since Elizabethan times.
This retail mercantile business was founded in 1905, as Julius Garfinkle & Co. by Julius Garfinckel (1872–1936), originally employing 10 clerks. The store opened on October 2, 1905, at 1226 F St. NW in Washington, D.C. [3] By August 1924, the spelling of the store name was modified to Julius Garfinckel & Co. [4]
And on Monday night's episode of "Antiques Roadshow," we learned four Edward Weston photographs are worth way more than that. "So all four of the pieces together, if you were to
William Edwin Brooks (1828–1899), Irish civil engineer and ornithologist; Bucky Brooks (William Eldridge Brooks, Jr., born 1971), American football player and sportswriter; Bill Brooks (coach) (William J. Brooks, 1922–2010), American baseball and basketball coach; William Keith Brooks (1848–1908), American zoologist; William L. Brooks ...
LEICESTER - Nine years ago, Anthony Brooks purchased a 3-acre plot on the Auburn-Leicester line and Blue Collar Vintage Salvage was born. Today it's a place for treasure hunters of all ages to ...
William Anthony (ca. 1764–1844), English watchmaker, London, pocket watches for the Chinese market. Baptist Johann (1765–1826), German engineer, astronomical clocks. Jacob Auch (1765–1842), south German clockmaker, Weimar, student of Philipp Matthäus Hahn, clockmaker of the court.
William Robert Brooks was born in Maidstone, England, the son of Caroline (née Wickings) and William Brooks, a Baptist minister who emigrated to Marion, New York. [1] He developed his interest in astronomy during a boyhood voyage to Australia, when he observed a navigator making measurements with a sextant.