Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . AND rs ILLUSTRATED. A. F. NILES & SON, 47 Wholesale Grocers, Pork Packers, Dealers in Salt and Smoked Fish, Meats andSausage—Nos. 126, 128, 130, and 132 Main St.,
Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . AND rs ILLUSTRATED. A. F. NILES & SON, 47 Wholesale Grocers, Pork Packers, Dealers in Salt and Smoked Fish, Meats andSausage—Nos. 126, 128, 130, and 132 Main St., Cor. Emery. Of prominent Springfield lousiness houses few have Ijcen longer established or have eniovedmore uniform prosperity than has the one named above, founded by the senior member in Niles is a fair sample of the genuine New Hampshire Yankee of thirtv years ago, andboasts that he came here a poor and friendless boy, having worked his wav down the river ona raft from Haverhill when twenty-one years of age. His first emijlovmcnt here was as sales-man in the grocery of George Church, a famous old-time merchant, with whom he remained,working hard, studying every detail of the business, and economizing in every way until in1S57, having accumulated a modest amount of capital, he engaged in the same calling on hisown account and founded the house of which he has ever since been the head. The junior. partner, Mr. O. W. Niles, thirty-two years of age, entered the firm when but eighteen. Hewas born in this city, is a young man of pronounced capacity, energy, and enterprise, and bidsfair to render it still more influential in the future than it has ever been in the past. A. F. Niles & Son do a wholesale grocery 1)usiness of large proportions with city and coun-try retailers, whom they supply with staple goods of choice grades, including teas, coffees,sugars, syrups, soap, starch, etc., in lots to suit; Init their great specialty is the curing and saleof provisions—sa
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