. The city of Troy and its vicinity. ke clothing which the managersafterward sell. The present officersare Mrs. C. L. MacArthur, president;Mrs, John N. Squires, vice president;Miss Sarah Thurman, secretary ; Cohen, treasurer. Engineers and Surveyors Instruments.— W. & L. E. GuRLEY, in their large,four-story, brick building, on thenorth side of Fulton street, betweenFifth and Union streets, manufacture The site of the establishment hasfor more than three-score years beenoccupied by buildings in which sur-veying and mathematical instrumentshave been manufactured. JuliusHanks, of Mansfi
. The city of Troy and its vicinity. ke clothing which the managersafterward sell. The present officersare Mrs. C. L. MacArthur, president;Mrs, John N. Squires, vice president;Miss Sarah Thurman, secretary ; Cohen, treasurer. Engineers and Surveyors Instruments.— W. & L. E. GuRLEY, in their large,four-story, brick building, on thenorth side of Fulton street, betweenFifth and Union streets, manufacture The site of the establishment hasfor more than three-score years beenoccupied by buildings in which sur-veying and mathematical instrumentshave been manufactured. JuliusHanks, of Mansfield, Connecticut,having, in 1808, erected in Gibbons-ville, (now West Troy), a bell andbrass foundry, purchased, June 15,1825, from Jacob D. E. Van der Hey-den, lot 795, on the north side of El-bow (Fulton) Street, between FifthStreet and the alley east of it. Onthis and the adjoining lot, afterwardspurchased by him, he erected a two-story, weather-boarded building,fronting with two gables and aportico on Fifth Street. A small. JULIUS hanks building, 1825. theodolites, solar telescopes, com-passes, transits, plane tables, Y levels,miners compasses, chains, rods, anddrawing instruments. The enterpris-ing firm makes annually more engi-neering and surveying instrumentsthan any other three mathematicaland philosophical instrument manu-factures in the United States, andwidely distributes them in all parts ofthe world. The Gurley instrumentsare used by engineers in Japan, Chi-na, India, Syria, Arabia, Egypt,South and Central America, Mexico,Cuba, Hayti, Canada, and in everystate and territory in this country. bust of Benjamin Franklin ornament-ed the entablature of the front dooron the portico, and the dial of a clockthe gable of that part of the buildingin which were the office and work-rooms : the north part being tlie dwell-ing of the proprietor. On FultonStreet, on the west side of the alley,Julius Hanks built a small, framestructure, which he usedfora the two buildi
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