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 . s,visited the Sandwich Islands, Ceylon,Australia, Hindoostan, China, traveledin nearly all the countries of the oldworld, and finis
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 . s,visited the Sandwich Islands, Ceylon,Australia, Hindoostan, China, traveledin nearly all the countries of the oldworld, and finished by circum-navigatingthe globe. Returning to Milwaukee in1843, 1^^ opened a pawnbrokers shop onEast Water street, a few doors below hispresent stand. In 1855 he moved to452 East Water street, and has remainedthere since. He can talk the English,French and Spanish languages, andseveral of the Indian dialects. He hastranslated the Lords prayer into thelatter tongue, also other portions of theScriptures. He is now engaged in thebusiness of pawnbroking and moneylending, and does a thriving trade. Hekeeps on hand a fine stock of watches,clocks, jewelry, opera glasses, etc., andalso sells second-hand goods of all de-scriptions. Mr. Loomis was born inVermont in 1816, and is still hale andhearty, is a member of the Old SettlersClub, and takes delight in telling hisexperience in the Cream City, when itwas in its infant state. INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE. 207. The Grandest Historical Panorama Ever Placed on Exhibition, T Do Not Fail to See It when You Coine to Town. Opposite Exposition Building. Open Daily. HIS is one of the grand sights of Mil- j of the scene in a marvelous way. The illusion is so perfect that we imagine our-selves in the very midst of this great a realistic scene it is incomparable. waukee, and to those who have neverseen one of these panoramas it is simplywonderful, impressing one with the reality 208 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF MILWAUKEE.
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