. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . HOWARD A. STEVENSON,. 237 and was the oldest and perhaps the best of its kindin the city. The location of the new firm was at 113Arch Street. In 1873 Bean & Stevenson bonght outthe stock pi the long-established firm of Wetherill &Brother, Wholesale drng dealers, at 47 and 49 NorthSecond Street, and removed to that locality. Weth-erill & Brother had been principall}^ engaged in theSonth American trade, and their business, added tothat previously possessed by the firm, gave it themost important drng trade in the cit3\ During
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . HOWARD A. STEVENSON,. 237 and was the oldest and perhaps the best of its kindin the city. The location of the new firm was at 113Arch Street. In 1873 Bean & Stevenson bonght outthe stock pi the long-established firm of Wetherill &Brother, Wholesale drng dealers, at 47 and 49 NorthSecond Street, and removed to that locality. Weth-erill & Brother had been principall}^ engaged in theSonth American trade, and their business, added tothat previously possessed by the firm, gave it themost important drng trade in the cit3\ During thisperiod Mr. Stevenson had become a member and director of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange, in whoseaffairs he took an active interest. In 1878 he retiredfrom mercantile life, and became connected with thestreet railwa^^ system, a connection which still con-tinues. Having purchased an interest in the Green &Coates Streets Passenger Railway Compan}^ he waselected a Director of that corporation in Januar\^,1879, and in July of that year was made its office h
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