. The city of Troy and its vicinity. Gary & Co.,1872, Perrin W. Converse, SidneyT. Gary, and George G. Converse,No. 12 Broadway ; Converse, Peck-ham, (Reuben) & Co., (George G. Con-verse) 1873; in 1874, the firm also oc-cupied the new building, No. 37Third Street; Converse, Peckham, &Vilas, (Samuel H.) 1877; , & Co., (William M. Peck-ham) 1881. On March i, 1884, thepresent firm was formed by Perrin , Cornelius V. Collins, CarltonH. Merrill, and William A. Meeker,who occupied the three story, brickbuilding, No. 329 River Street, westside, between Fulton and Grand Divi-
. The city of Troy and its vicinity. Gary & Co.,1872, Perrin W. Converse, SidneyT. Gary, and George G. Converse,No. 12 Broadway ; Converse, Peck-ham, (Reuben) & Co., (George G. Con-verse) 1873; in 1874, the firm also oc-cupied the new building, No. 37Third Street; Converse, Peckham, &Vilas, (Samuel H.) 1877; , & Co., (William M. Peck-ham) 1881. On March i, 1884, thepresent firm was formed by Perrin , Cornelius V. Collins, CarltonH. Merrill, and William A. Meeker,who occupied the three story, brickbuilding, No. 329 River Street, westside, between Fulton and Grand Divi-sion streets. The firm commands alarge jobbing trade in Northern New 95 York. Vermont, and Western Massa- street, immediately north of the build- chusetts. jj^g Q^ {]-,g northeast corner of River G. V. S. QUACKENBUSH & Co., dry- and State streets, occupied many years goods, carpets, and upholstery mate- by Knox & Morgan, dry-goods mer- rials, southeast coiner of Third Street chants. Some years later thestore. G. V. S. OUACKENBUSH \- (OS liriLDINc and Broadway. Tlie founder of this, was enlarged by the erection of build-the oldest dry-goods house in the city, ings in the rear of it, Nos. 7 and 9was Gerrit Van Schaick Quacken- State Street, where it extended byjanbush, who, in 1824, engaged in the angle to the latter street, the side .en-dry-goods business at No. 202 River trances being opposite the post-office, on the south side of State the drift of trade tendingtoward Washington Square and Al-bany Street (now Broadway), he pur-chased the Lyman property, on thesoutheast corner of Third and Albanystreets, and erected there the presentfour-story, brick building. He trans-ferred his stock to the new store, and,on October i, 1856, began businessin it. On February i, 1865, the firmof G. V. S. Quackenbush, & Co. wasformed; the copartners being GerritQuackenbush, (the son of G. V. ), Samuel H. Lasell, andWilliam H. Sherman. In 1868, Fred-erick Bullis bec
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