History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ty full of active, boldshrewd men, with whom he had entered on a race forwealth. In 1847 he established a house in Bostonfor the sale of hides and leather, and was the ac-knowledged peer of the most successful men in thetrade. At various times he has been the senior part-ner in the firm of Alley, Choate & Cummings, thefirm of John B. Alley & Co., in which Griffin Place,an able and successful man, was the partner andmore recently in the firm of Alley Bros. & Place, inwhich the two son
History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ty full of active, boldshrewd men, with whom he had entered on a race forwealth. In 1847 he established a house in Bostonfor the sale of hides and leather, and was the ac-knowledged peer of the most successful men in thetrade. At various times he has been the senior part-ner in the firm of Alley, Choate & Cummings, thefirm of John B. Alley & Co., in which Griffin Place,an able and successful man, was the partner andmore recently in the firm of Alley Bros. & Place, inwhich the two sons of Mr. Alley and Mr. Place werethe partners. In 1886 this last firm was dissolved,and after a business career of forty-eight years retired, leaving with his former partners aspecial capital for the continuance of the is now absent on a European tour, enjoying hisfirst vacation in a life of seventy years, free from theburdens and responsibilities of a business which re-quired his constant and conscientious attention andcare. But Mr. Alley may be said to have led two
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