. must be marketed as soon as balls for tipping the horns of cattle were in demand, and the partners hadinvented a new pattern or style which was an improvement on anything thenmade. A hardware merchant from an Ohio town, who was visiting a friend inFarmington, was shown one of these and at once gave a good order for 4, 1849, was celebrated by Doen, Corbin & Co. by the shipment of theirfirst bill of goods, completing the Ohio merchants order, amounting to betweentwo and three hundred dollars. When the new factor
. must be marketed as soon as balls for tipping the horns of cattle were in demand, and the partners hadinvented a new pattern or style which was an improvement on anything thenmade. A hardware merchant from an Ohio town, who was visiting a friend inFarmington, was shown one of these and at once gave a good order for 4, 1849, was celebrated by Doen, Corbin & Co. by the shipment of theirfirst bill of goods, completing the Ohio merchants order, amounting to betweentwo and three hundred dollars. When the new factory was ready to begin business, on the first of May in1849, ^^- Philip Corbin had in personalfunds just eighteen dollars. This he putin the little drawer on the top of thebureau, locked it, hung the key onthe standard at one side of the mir-ror, and told his wife that thatwas all the money he had; thathe did not want to draw anymoney out of the business so longas it could be avoided, and thatthey would see how far theamount on hand could bemade to go. It.
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