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| Please Note: The
following business advertisements have been
collected from various city and business
directories. In most cases, they have been edited
to enhance their appearance as they were either
very faded or a microfilmed copy had printed
poorly. When possible, research has been
undertaken and an explanation of the business,
its owners, and its history has been included. Should you find any errors
in my research, if you can add further
information, or you'd simply like to drop me an
email ... please feel free to contact Patricia Davidson-Peters.
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| When this
advertisement was first located in the
1850 St. Louis Directory, it was hoped
that the Charles F. Hendry listed here
might prove to be of the same family as
Elihu E. Hendry who married Mary Jane
Pilcher. Unfortunately, this Charles F.
Hendry who was located in the 1850 census
residing in St. Louis and listed as a
leather merchant, was born in New Jersey.
It appears that he may have died during
the Civil War or not long after as his
widow and children are later located in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Elihu Emory
Hendry, relative to the Moore and Pilcher
families, was born in Tennessee and
married Mary Jane Pilcher in St. Louis on
14 Feb 1860. Mary Jane was the daughter
of Ezekiel Pilcher and his wife Louisa
(Ballard), and was the mother of Clara
and Sarah Louise, who were also referred
to as Dolly and Lulu respectively. They
resided in Dallas Co., Missouri in 1880
and in 1900 were living in Central Twp.,
St. Louis County. A letter of Mary Jane
to her sister Clara in 1873 remains in
the possession of P. Davidson-Peters and
was written from Springfield.
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| The Liggett &
Myer Tobacco Company, producers of what
we would come to know as L&M brand of
cigarettes, was a business whose roots
extend to Christopher Foulks who moved
his family to Belleville, Illinois after
the British soldiers had burned down his
snuff mill in New Jersey. He later moved
to St. Louis where he opened a tobacco
shop. In about 1820 his daughter,
Elizabeth Foulks, married Joseph Liggett.
who had been born 20 Feb 1798 and they
were the parents of at least Mortimer,
John Edmund, and William Carr Lane
Liggett. After Joseph's death
on 12 Apr 1829, Elizabeth married Hiram
H. Shaw. Their marriage took place in St.
Louis on 16 Nov 1830. They were
enumerated in the 1850 & 1860 census
records residing in that city and their
household included Elizabeth's son, John
Edmund Liggett and his family. At the age
of eighteen, he had entered the employ of
Foulks & Shaw tobacco manufacturers,
the members of the firm being his
maternal grandfather (Christopher Foulks)
and stepfather (Hiram Shaw). John then
became a partner of the firm known as
Hiram Shaw & Co. A year and a half
later his brother Willian Carr Lane
"W.C.L." Liggett purchased
Shaw's interest, and the name was changed
to J.E. Liggett & Bro. to reflect the
change as it is shown here in the 1850
St. Louis Directory.
W.C.L.
Liggett sold his interest to Henry
Dausman and for eighteen years it was
known as Liggett & Dausman. In 1873,
George S. Myers purchased Dausman's
interest and the business was then known
as Liggett & Myers which was
incorporated as Liggett & Myer
Tobacco Manufacturing Company in 1878,
and for many years thereafter.
John
Edmund Liggett died in St. Louis on 23
Nov 1897, his widow Elizabeth Jane
(Calbreath) whom he married 21 Dec 1851,
died in St. Louis on 07 May 1909.
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 Brief
Biographical Sketch of John Edmund
Liggett |
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| Founded by Charles Deere and
Alvah Mansur in 1869, they opened their
first manufacturing house in Kansas City.
In 1874 the St. Louis branch of Deere
& Mansur was opened to
"distribute John Deere goods and a
general line of agricultural implements
and vehicles in the southern trade." The company
conducted busness under this name until
1889 when the St. Louis members purchased
the Moline interest and the company then
became known as Mansur & Tebbetts
Implement Company.1
At the
time of Alvah Mansur's death in 1908,
Note:
Newspaper advetisement taken from The
Davenport (IA) Weekly Gazette, 07 Sep
1881
|
 Brief Biographical
Sketch of Alvah Mansur |
| Biographical Sketch
of Charles Deere |
| Photo of Deere
& Mansur Company |
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