. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . - goods stores are especially conspicuous,comparing favorably with stores of the same class in much largercities. A representative establishment of this kind is the dry goodshouse of H. W. Allen & Co., the oldest and largest in the cit3%It was founded by Elias L^^man, who, in 1848, admitted the lateEdward Lyman to partnership. In 1851 Edward Lyman suc-ceeded to the business, and in 1868 Heman W. Allen was admit-ted. In 1885 Mr. F. D. Abernethy became a partner, the firmremaining Lyman & Allen till the death of M
. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . - goods stores are especially conspicuous,comparing favorably with stores of the same class in much largercities. A representative establishment of this kind is the dry goodshouse of H. W. Allen & Co., the oldest and largest in the cit3%It was founded by Elias L^^man, who, in 1848, admitted the lateEdward Lyman to partnership. In 1851 Edward Lyman suc-ceeded to the business, and in 1868 Heman W. Allen was admit-ted. In 1885 Mr. F. D. Abernethy became a partner, the firmremaining Lyman & Allen till the death of Mr. Lyman in 1890,when it was changed to Heman W. Allen & Co. The store, onthe corner of Church and Bank streets is the largest in the 1HE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY PICTURESQ UE B URLING TON. i6g attractive and metropolitan in appearance, with a large retail tradeand a wholesale business extending throughout the State and farbeyond its borders. It is one of the establishments which hashelped to make Burlington prominent as a mercantile center. The intellectual life of a community can be gauged frommany points of view. One of the easiest and at the same timemost accurate estimates can be made from the standpoint of itsbook stores. Estimated from this view Burlington would beplaced very high in that regard. The .store of Whitney & Shan-
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