New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . esidentCleveland was the nomination of Dr. Senner to the im-portant post of Commissioner of Emigration at the port of Wendell, Fay «& Co. He was born in Boston. February 6,1836, and received his education at the old English HighSchool. He began his business career in the commissionhouse of Lawrence, Stone & Co., of Boston, in 1855, and in1857 he became connected with the famous MiddlesexWoollen Mills, of Lowell, Mass. In 1800 Mr. Fay came toNew York with Mr. Stone and the great commission houseof Stone, Bliss, Fay & Allen wa
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . esidentCleveland was the nomination of Dr. Senner to the im-portant post of Commissioner of Emigration at the port of Wendell, Fay «& Co. He was born in Boston. February 6,1836, and received his education at the old English HighSchool. He began his business career in the commissionhouse of Lawrence, Stone & Co., of Boston, in 1855, and in1857 he became connected with the famous MiddlesexWoollen Mills, of Lowell, Mass. In 1800 Mr. Fay came toNew York with Mr. Stone and the great commission houseof Stone, Bliss, Fay & Allen was formed, and it soonmade its mark in the Metro])olis. From 1861 to 1869 thefirm did the largest woollen commission business of anyhouse in the city. It represented the Middlesex Company,the Glenham Woollen Com])any, the Broad Brook Company,the Lawrence Woollen Company, the Home WoollenCompany, the Terry Manufacturing Company, the WillowBrook Mills, J. P. Brunner &: Sons, the Campbell Mills, theDumbarton Mills, the Swift River Co. and others; being. SIGOURNEY W. FAY. New York, said appointment being made March 28, 1893,the same month in which Mr. Cleveland was inauguratedPresident, and it was generally regarded as a compliment tothe German-American population of the country. Com-missioner Senner is a member of the New York Bar, Presi-dent of the National Organization of German AmericanJournalists, and President of the German Social ScientificSociety of New York. SIGOURNEY W. FAY. Sigourney \V. Fay is one of New Yorks typical mer-chants, he has an unblemished record, he is popular,literary, artistic, and for more than thirty-five years he hasbeen personally identified with one of the largest woollenmills corporation in the United States. Mr. Fay is the headof the well known New York woollen commission firm of agents in all for 140 sets of cards, besides having several cottoncloth accounts. In 1869 the firm was changed to Perry,Wendell, Fay & Co., and on the death of the popular
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