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Steel plate engraving of George Worthington c. 1860. George Worthington (September 21, 1813 – November 9, 1871) was a 19th-century merchant and banker in Cleveland, Ohio, who founded the Geo. Worthington Company, a wholesale hardware and industrial distribution firm, in 1829 (until 1991 Cleveland's oldest extant business), as well as numerous banking and mining concerns, and contributed to ...
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Now a subsidiary of Crane Co. 1801 Revere Copper Company: Canton, Massachusetts (found.) Copper Processing [100] Now based in Rome, New York. 1802 DuPont: Wilmington, Delaware: Chemicals [4] [32] Merged 2017 into DuPont de Nemours, Inc. 1803 Golden Lamb Inn: Lebanon, Ohio: Restaurant [101] The oldest restaurant in Ohio 1806 Colgate: New York ...
Returning to the U.S., Tillie settled on Stockton, California to grow the tomatoes. After persuading farmers in the area to experiment raising the tomatoes, she convinced Pacific Can Company to build a plant at Stockton with an option for her to buy it. [4] By 1940, she had made San Joaquin County the top tomato-producing county in the United ...
In February, 1874, Otis visited Indianapolis, Indiana. Much like Cleveland, Indianapolis saw its growth in the last decades of the nineteenth-century. Otis toured the city for less than a month to see much of the early growth. [4] Charles' brother, William H. Otis, was a prominent resident of Indianapolis. [5]
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In 1987, Federated acquired William H. Block Company of Indianapolis, Indiana (including Wren's, Springfield, Ohio) and Herpolsheimer's of Grand Rapids, Michigan from Allied Stores and incorporated them into Lazarus. (The Grand Rapids Lazarus stores, converted from the Herpolsheimer's name in late 1987, were shuttered in September 1990.)
Most of Indianapolis's early merchants set up businesses along Washington Street, the town's main street, but its first market house was built north of the courthouse in 1833. Subsequent structures on the site became known as the Indianapolis City Market. [44] Agricultural production remained an important part of Indianapolis's early history.