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James Gilbert Sterchi (June 23, 1867 – December 9, 1932) was an American businessman, best known as the cofounder and head of the furniture wholesaler, Sterchi Brothers Furniture Company. At its height, Sterchi Brothers was the world's largest furniture store chain, [ 1 ] with sixty-five stores across the southeastern United States and a ...
Furniture attributed to Day, North Carolina Museum of History. Thomas Day (c. 1801–1861) was an American furniture craftsman and cabinetmaker in Milton , Caswell County , North Carolina. [ 1 ] Born into a free African-American family in Dinwiddie County , Virginia, Day moved to Milton in 1817 and became a highly successful businessman ...
With his brothers Charles and Albert, Gustav formed Stickley Brothers & Company in 1883, the same year he married Eda Ann Simmons. [1] Within five years, the company was dissolved and Stickley's ambitions led him to partner with Elgin Simonds, a salesman in the furniture trade, to form the firm Stickley & Simonds in Binghamton, New York.
In 1935, he founded the Central Appliance and Furniture Co. with his brother, Sam. In 1946, the company was incorporated and the name changed to Polk Brothers , Inc. after the five Polk brothers: Sol, Samuel, Morris, Harry and David [ 3 ] (he also had a sister, Goldie Bachmann Luftig).
His half-brother, Christian Augustus Ludwig Herter, was born in 1839. The boys followed their stepfather/father in the furniture-making trade. Gustave Herter came to New York City in 1848, and by 1858 was working under his own name. Christian was in New York by 1859, and joined his brother in the firm (renamed Herter Brothers) by 1864. [2]
The company would merge with Mueller Furniture Corporation, becoming Widdicomb-Mueller Corporation, in 1950. Ten years later Mueller would split from Widdicomb. In 1970, the company name is acquired by John Widdicomb Company. [2] From 1943 until 1956, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings served as designer for the company, designing Modern furniture.
John retired in 1830 and his sons, William and Henry, carried on the firm. Henry died in 1835 and the firm became William Davenport and Company. William died in 1869. The firm continued under William’s two sons till 1887 when the factory was closed. In 1887 Davenport was acquired by Burleigh Pottery.
William Henry ("Judge") Moore (October 28, 1848 – January 11, 1923) was an American attorney and financier. [1] He organized and promoted or sat as a director for several steel companies that were merged with among others the Carnegie Steel Company to create United States Steel. [2]