. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. nds to. It is notsurprising, therefore, to find that Forbes & Wallace have developed theironce little retail store into the largest and most prominent wholesale andretail dry-goods house in Massachusetts, excepting only some of those inBoston. Warren D. Kinsman, whose fancy dry-goods and novelties establishmentoccupies the corner stores of the handsome brick structure known as Kins-mans Block, on thewest side of MainStreet at the cornerof Bridge Street,enjoys the distinc-tion of being atthe he
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. nds to. It is notsurprising, therefore, to find that Forbes & Wallace have developed theironce little retail store into the largest and most prominent wholesale andretail dry-goods house in Massachusetts, excepting only some of those inBoston. Warren D. Kinsman, whose fancy dry-goods and novelties establishmentoccupies the corner stores of the handsome brick structure known as Kins-mans Block, on thewest side of MainStreet at the cornerof Bridge Street,enjoys the distinc-tion of being atthe head in his linein Western Massa-chusetts. Thispre-eminence has fairlyearned by devotinghis whole lifetimeto the business inwhich he is stillactively began as a clerkin a similar estab-lishment in 1852, in Manchester, ; and in 1858 went to Boston into theconcern of his former employer, J. A. Howard. In 1861 he came to Spring-field in the employ of the brother of his then recent Boston employer, J. , who died in 1862. The next four years he was associated in the. Warren D. Kinsmans Block, Main and Bridge Streets. AINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. 349 continuance of this same business with Luther G. Howard, another brother,under the firm name Howard & Kinsman, which continued until August,1866, since which time Mr. Kinsman has conducted the business alone inhis own name. At first, the store was on Main Street, a few doors northof State Street, now occupied by T. S. Stewart, in the Pynchon Bank Block;and continued here until 1870, when it was moved to 360 Main Street, nowoccupied by L. S. Stowe & Co. In 1880 the final move was made into thepresent brick block, which was built by Mr. Kinsman on land purchased byhim of the Hampden Savings Bank, and of the Trask family, where for acouple of generations stood one of the most noteworthy homes of Spring-field. Here one can see a model store in its line, — light, convenient, wellarranged, fully stocked, and
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