Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . peal. The students and graduates of theSpencerian Business College during thepast twenty years and more, numberingmany thousands, h
Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations . peal. The students and graduates of theSpencerian Business College during thepast twenty years and more, numberingmany thousands, have been absorbed intothe business life of all portions of our ownand foreign countries, and constitute abody of useful, honorable and sterlingmen and women, inferior to none. Infact, they comprise a most enterpris- 178 IND USTRIAL HISTOR Y OF MIL WA UKEE. ing, able and influential body of peoplewhose average prosperity is greater thanthat of any other equal number of per-sons, due largely to the benefits derivedfrom the education and training receivedin the Spencerian Business College, Mil-waukee, Wis., where students are receivedany time. JAMES MORaAN, Importer and Dealer in Dry Goods,Millinery, etc. 386 and 388 East Water Street. ONE of the largest wholesale and re-tail dry goods and millinery estab-lishments in this city is that of Jas. Mor-gan, located at Nos. 386 and 388 EastWater street. The business was estab-lished in 1874 in a comparatively small. way, having a force of less than a dozenpeople, but now upwards of 200 personsare constantly employed, and the tradeextends all over the Northwest. Thelocation is in the most central portion ofthe city, and easily reached by the threelines of street railways from the depots,steamboat wharves, andall parts of thecity. The building is four stories inheight, with a large basement, all thefloors having dimensions of 40x150 is made as fine a display of dressgoods, cloaks, shawls, flannels, curtainlaces, blankets, shoes
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