The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . Gov. George Clin-ton, of New York. Mr. Mc-Kessons father was John Mc-Kesson 4th; his mother wasthe daughter of Gov. AYilliamHull, of Michigan. The fa-ther died when the son wasfour
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . Gov. George Clin-ton, of New York. Mr. Mc-Kessons father was John Mc-Kesson 4th; his mother wasthe daughter of Gov. AYilliamHull, of Michigan. The fa-ther died when the son wasfourteen years of age, and heentered a wholesale drug housein New York city, where heremained for fifteen years, be-coming executor of his employ-ers estate, and guardian of hischildren and CTandchildren athis decease. In January, 1833,he became associated withCharles M. Olcott in MaidenLane, New York, in the wholesale drug C. Robbins was subsequently admitted to thefirm, which in 1853, by the death of Mr. Olcott,became McKesson & Robbins, long and well knownas among the heaviest dealers in drugs and drug-gists sundries in the United States, their an-nual sales aggregating more than $3,000,000, witha force of over 350 employees, years since. retired from active labor in 1884. Hisstanding as a man of business, and his characteras a man, have long been recognized as exception-ally no THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA
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