. The city of Troy and its vicinity. : the north part being tlie dwell-ing of the proprietor. On FultonStreet, on the west side of the alley,Julius Hanks built a small, framestructure, which he usedfora the two buildings he began manu-facturing, as he advertised, churchbells, town clocks, copper and brasscastings, and surveyors instrumentsof the most improved construction. 104 In 1829, his son, Oscar, succeeded to on the site of that known as No. 319 the business. River Street, using the basement for a William Gurley, the senior member foundry, the first story for an office of the f
. The city of Troy and its vicinity. : the north part being tlie dwell-ing of the proprietor. On FultonStreet, on the west side of the alley,Julius Hanks built a small, framestructure, which he usedfora the two buildings he began manu-facturing, as he advertised, churchbells, town clocks, copper and brasscastings, and surveyors instrumentsof the most improved construction. 104 In 1829, his son, Oscar, succeeded to on the site of that known as No. 319 the business. River Street, using the basement for a William Gurley, the senior member foundry, the first story for an office of the firm of W. & L. E. Gurley, and a salesroom, and the two upper after graduating, in 1839, from the stories for work-rooms. Lewis E. Gur- Rensselaer Institute, now known as ley, before entering Union College, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1847, whence he was graduated in entered the establishment of Oscar July, 1851, had acquired a knowledge Hanks, in 1840, to learn the business, of the business with Phelps & GURLEY BUILDING, FULTON STREET. On February 25, 1545, he and JonasH. Phelps formed a partnership, underthe name of Phelps & Gurley, mathe-matical and philosophical instrumentmakers, and rented the basement ofthe building formerly on the south-west corner of River and Grand Divi-sion streets. On May i, 1845, thefirm occupied the building formerly In September, 1851, he was admitteda member of the firm, which took thename of Phelps & Gurleys. OnFebruary i, 1852, the Gurley Broth-ers purchased Jonas H. Phelpss inter-est, and continued the business underthe name of W. & L. E. Gurley. Inthe spring of 1852, they bought theproperty formerly belonging to Oscar 105 Hanks, on Fulton and Fifth year, they erected, on the site ofthe Hanks foundry, a four-story, brickbuilding, fronting 65 feet on FultonStreet, and furnished it with the ma-chinery which their enlarged businessdemanded. On May 10, 1862, it andthe building on the corner of Fifthand Fulton stre
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