History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . ; the bulkier, cheap-er and more desred raw material used fordyeing cloth and yarn came from countriesjust south of us, bordering on the Carrib-bean Sea, was shipped to Europe, prepared added to the merchandise dealt in, and fromthat time on this firm was recognized as asource of supply by those requiring chemi-cals as well as dyestuffs. Aaron Innis dying in 1844, his eldestson George, abandoned a college course tolearn the business in which his fathers estateowned the controlling interest. Howland Sherman dyi
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . ; the bulkier, cheap-er and more desred raw material used fordyeing cloth and yarn came from countriesjust south of us, bordering on the Carrib-bean Sea, was shipped to Europe, prepared added to the merchandise dealt in, and fromthat time on this firm was recognized as asource of supply by those requiring chemi-cals as well as dyestuffs. Aaron Innis dying in 1844, his eldestson George, abandoned a college course tolearn the business in which his fathers estateowned the controlling interest. Howland Sherman dying in 1858, GeorgeInnis became the sole ow^ner of the business,operating it under the old firm name. In 1885 Hasbrouck Innis, son of George,and Wm. R. Innis, son of Aaron, 2nd, ac-quired the business, changing its name toInnis & Co., under which style it continueduntil 1906, the name and good will mean-while, having been purchased in 1904 byGeo. V. Sheffield. In 1906 the Company w^as reorganizedand incorporated under the name of Innis,Speiden & Company, C. C. Spieden, to-. fsco Chemical Company for use, and shipped back to America. This,in the days of sailing vessels, and not manyof them, involved much time and exoense. In the year 1816, Nathan Gifford, aScotchman, erected a dyewood cuttin^- millat Poughkeepsie, N. Y., but found hiscapital insufficient to swing the venture. Aleading merchant and Hudson riverfreighter, of Poughkeepsie, Aaron Innis byname, recognizing the soundness of theenterorise and scenting profitable freightfor his vessels both up and down the Hud-son, came to his rescue by supplying thenecesarv capital and Dutnt? hi^ ^land Sherman, in charge of the busi-ness, thus establishing the firm of Gifford,Sherman and Innis, with mills at Pough-keepsie and a New York office and ware-house for the importntion headquarters ofthose older and less bulky dyestuffs whichcame largely from the East Indies, such asIndigo, Turmeric, Lac Dye, Cutch, etc. The busines
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