. Ohio, the future great state, her manufacturers, and a history of her commercial cities, Cincinnati and Cleveland. ASTOR, LENOX. #^ Tu^btifr : I TILDi. WILLIAM KIRKUP. The subject of this sketch was a native of the city of Carlisle, north of England,though he left there in 1834, and four years later came to Cincinnati, arriving in the QueenCity of the West on the last day of June, 1838. Nine years later, Mr. William Kirkupcommenced the brass founders business, in connection with Messrs. Joseph Garrettand George Peck, in a small way, on Front Street, near the Little Miami depot. Thebuilding o
. Ohio, the future great state, her manufacturers, and a history of her commercial cities, Cincinnati and Cleveland. ASTOR, LENOX. #^ Tu^btifr : I TILDi. WILLIAM KIRKUP. The subject of this sketch was a native of the city of Carlisle, north of England,though he left there in 1834, and four years later came to Cincinnati, arriving in the QueenCity of the West on the last day of June, 1838. Nine years later, Mr. William Kirkupcommenced the brass founders business, in connection with Messrs. Joseph Garrettand George Peck, in a small way, on Front Street, near the Little Miami depot. Thebuilding occupied was fifteen by fifty, two stories in height, in which three or four menwere given employment. Business was continued here for three years, when a removalwas made to the buildings 290 East Front Street, where greater facilities were affordedfor carrying on the constantly growing trade of the firm. These buildings were two innumber, four stories in height, thirty by twenty-eight feet, and sixty-six by twenty-eightfeet in width and depth, respectively, and were furnished with all the tools necessaryfor the successful pr
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