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From a curious class of advertisements incidental to the trade and industry of this period the following examples are taken :
One Cent Reward. - Ranaway from the subscriber, living in Franklinton, J- S-, an apprentice to the waggon making business, on the eighteenth instant; eighteen years last March, about five feet eight or nine inches high ; has a down look, and moves slow, I do hereby forwarn all persons from harboring or employing said apprentice, also from trust- ing him on my account. The above reward will be given for the delivery of said s-, but no thank, or extra expense. J-J -.
Apprentice to the Plaistering, & c. - I want a Boy sixteen or seventeen years of age, as an apprentice to the business of Plaistering and ornamenting with water colors. One who will come well recommended will have a good opportunity to learn his business, shall be well used, and have common privileges. JAMES UNCLES.
A " judgment and execution law," which was intended to relieve the stress of the times by retarding the collection of debts, was passed February 1, 1822, but only destroyed credit, and made matters worse. The financial distress of the people arose primarily from the abominable condition of the currency, and such legislation as this entirely missed the root of the evil.
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Among the new partnership names which appear in 1825 are those of Rath- bone & Osborn, drygoods and groceries ; and O. & S. Crosby, drugs. Messrs. Croshy were located at the southeast corner of High and State streets. On the northwest corner of these streets stood the drygoods store of R. W. McCoy.
In 1826 we find the name of L. Reynolds in the drygoods trade, and in 1827 that of John Greenwood in boots and shoes. Contemporary with Greenwood were I. and E. Bronson, hatters, Jacob Elmer, furniture, and Jordan & Ellis, dealers in " Dutch bolting cloths, from one of the first manufacturies in Holland." A dis- tillery in operation near Columbus in 1827 was owned by Isaac Taylor.
J. Gridley is a drygoods name of 1828, in which year, or thereabouts, Osborn, Leiby & Co. sold out to Ralph Osborn and James McDowell. Up to this time, and long afterwards, the drygoods, grocery, queensware and hardware trades were almost invariably combined. In an exclusively drug and medicine trade the Crosby's were the pioneers. John Kerr came in as their principal rival sometime later. Deshler & Greenwood entered the drygoods and grocery trade in 1828 in a threestory brick building on High Street between the establishments of Goodale & Co. and Gwynne & Baldwin. Peter Sharp had a tailor shop in the building of Gill & Green on High Street, east side, first door south of Crosby's, and C. W. Kent kept a livery stable on Front Street, between Broad and State. In December, 1828, the Crosbys removed to a new building, " one door north of R. W. McCoy, directly opposite the Statehouse." In this year we find William S. Sullivant pay- ing " the highest cash price for wheat at Sullivant's Mill, near Columbus."
In 1829 I. N. Whiting began the book and stationery business on the north- east corner of' High and Town Streets. So states a manuscript now before the writer, but an advertisement of 1830 locates Mr. Whiting " one door south of But- tles & Matthews's store, on High Street." P. P. Hall opened a " new general store " in 1829, at " the corner of High and State, near the market," and in July of the same year Philip Reed announced a " new saddler shop, immediately opposite Messrs. Goodale and Buttles's store, and next door to Mr. Walcutt's Chair Factory." In 1830 Isaac N. Whiting had combined a hardware trade with that of books, and William A. Platt announced a new establishment in watches and jewelry " a few doors south of Watson's Ifotel, between Young's Coffee House and the Postoffice." The Watson Hotel was kept by John Watson, of Chillicothe, who had purchased it from Edmund Browning.1 Counterfeit notes of the United States Bank and other banking institutions obtained conspicuous mention as business plagues of this period. Between the counterfeiters on the one hand and depreciated or worthless bank paper on the other, business men of the thirties and forties had a rather precarious time of it.
" In front of every store," says Mr. John L. Gill, " was a post and rail for the convenience of the country people to bitch their horses when they came to town."? So numerous were the animals, saddled, and "sidesaddled," thus hitched in rows up and down High Street, particularly on Saturdays, that they were com. monly spoken of as " the cavalry." " In the spring of the year," adds Mr. Gill, " it was not an uncommon sight to see a number of Wyandot Indians, with their ponies laden with furs and country sugar, who came down to trade with our mer- chants," nearly all of whom, we are further told, " made their purchases in Balti-
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more, as there was no way of getting goods from New York and Philadelphia until after the completion of the Eric and Pennsylvania canals "3
The misinterpretation and misspelling of business signs were sometimes sources of amu-ement. On " muster lays," which were also holidays for the doughty militiamen and their friends, it was no uncommon thing to see a stont young countryman marching up the middle of High Street, leading his " gal" with one hand and holding a huge section of gingerbread in the other. On one of these occasions a particularly happy pair of this species happened to pass along, read- ing the " signs " and munching gingerbread, until they came opposite to the store of Goodale & Buttles, when the name of that firm, in large letters, arrested the countryman's attention. Coming to a sudden halt, and swinging his " gal " into line, at a front face, Rusticus spelled out the names, letter for letter, and exclaimed : " Hello, Sal, I'll be darned if there isn't good ale in bottles. That's just what I've been looking for. Let's go in and get some." And in they went.
Bad orthography on signboards was very common, but an instance of it more notable than any other because of the sport made of it was that of a certain High Street dealer in footwear, who, daily expecting a consignment of the heavy brogans then in demand, put up the placard : " Lookont for course boots." Near- ly everbody in the borough did " lookout for course boots" for a good while after that, and the gibes at the unlucky dealer's expense were endless Another subject for jocose gossip was a Front Street sign which read : "Fancy dying done here."
The business of the borough was at first concentrated in the vicinity of Rich and Friend streets, mostly on High, but by the year 1822 Front had become an important street both for business and for residences. All this was changed, how- ever, by the opening of the National Road and the Canal, the latter attracting a large amount of the business to the vicinity of the river, where several large ware- ho ises were built. Until the beginning of railway transportation and travel, the canal landing and the stage offices were the principal centers of business interest.
The effect of canal navigation on general business was immediate, and im- mensely beneficial. As soon as eastern connections were made, the surplus pro- ductions of Central Ohio began to find a market, at advanced prices. Before the canal was built, Licking County, says Hill's History, " had no outlet for produce except by wagons to the Lake, or by wagons to the Muskingum River, and thence by boat to New Orleans. The country was full of produce for which there was no market. Ham was worth three cents per pound, egys four cents per dozen, flour one dollar per hundred, whisky twelve and one half cents per gallon, and other things proportionately cheap." But as soon as the canal began to carry out the wheat, it advanced from twentyfive to seventyfive cents, and within a short time to one dollar and one dollar and twentyfive cents per bushel. "Mr. Shoemaker, of Pickaway County," says Hill's History, " was a rich land owner, and opposed the building of the canal on the ground that it would increase his tax, and then be a failure. But this gentleman, for such he was, said that his boys, with one yoke of oxen and a farm cart, hauled potatoes to Circleville [after the canal was built] and sold them for forty cents per pushel until they had money enough, and more, to pay all their taxes for a year." Wheat and other staples found a good market at the lake ports, where Canada appeared as an extensive purchaser. Thus did
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commerce, as it always does when unfettered, improve prices, stimulate production, create a demand for the fruits of the soil, and multiply the comforts of life. The awakening of commercial interchange was, in Central Ohio, as it has been every- where else, a great stride in the progress of civilization.
The advantages of the canal to general business are impressively illustrated by the enormous reduction in the cost of transportation which it effected. Before the construction of the National Road, freights through from Baltimore to Columbus had ranged from six to ten dollars per hundred pounds, and were difficult to get at any price. In September, 1831, Edward Wareham, agent of the Welland Canal Company, announces that he will contract for spring, summer and autumn transpor- tation, by canal, to New York ria Cleveland, the Welland Canal and Oswego, at the following rates :
Flour, per barrel, from Columbus to Cleveland, sixtyseven cents, inclusive of storage; from Cleveland to New York, one dollar and ten cents; and from Columbus to New York, one dollar and seventyseven cents. Pork and other staples were carried at proportionate rates both for weight and distance.
O. westward-going freights, such as drygoods, the rates were, per hundred pounds, one dollar and six and a quarter cents from New York to Cleveland ; eightytwo and onehalf cents, inclusive of storage, from Cleveland to Columbus; and one dollar and eightyeight and threequarter cents from New York to Columbus.
The first coal consumed in the capital was brought thither by Mr. John L. Gill, who tells the story thus :
After being in business two or three years i brought out [from the East] a stock of cook- stoves, the first stoves ever brought to Columbus [about [829] but it was an uphill business to dispose of them. I loaded up four fourhorse wagons, and took them down to Athens, where [ succee led in trading them for horses which I sent east. Passing through Nelsonville, I stopped over night, and there saw a fine coal fire. Inquiring of the landlord where he got the coal, 1 was informed that he got it in his garden, which was literally true. On inquiring what it was worth, he said it cost one and one half cents to dig it. He agreed to load my teams on their return to Athens, which he did, and this was the first coal that ever came to Columbus, except a few pieces which I brought in my saddlebags, and interested the natives and others who saw it burning, with the wood, on andirons in my parlor.4
Among the business names and partnerships of 1830-31-32 we find those of Samuel Cutler, Stewart & Higgins, Lewis Mills and John Brown, grocers; W. S. Sullivant, milling ; John Bown and Moses Taylor, lumberyard ; William A. Platt & Co. and C. C. Beard & Co., jewelers; MeGinnis & Pitcher and MeDermott & Wiley, batters; William A. Gill & Co., successors to Gill & Green, sloves, stills and sheetiron and tinware ; Samuel MeClelland, merchant tailor - the pioneer in that business ; Smith & Johnson, hairdressers; J. Ridgway & Co., warehouse ; John Noble, National Hotel; James and Benjamin L. Turnbull, bookstore ; I. G. Dryer, rabinetware ; S. Cutler and O. & S. Crosby as S. Culler & Co., forwarding and com- mission ; If. Delano & Co., drygoods ; Tunis Peters, tannery and dealer in flour, pork and whisky ; Isaac Taylor and sons, leather and whisky, "all of their own mann- facture ;" Nathaniel M. Miller, drugstore, " in the yellow frame building on High Street, opposite the Statehouse ;" M. Northrup, saddlery, afterwards drygoods; William L. Casey. for a time partner of Henry Delano, drygoods; John Brooks, corner of Rich and High streets, hardware and groceries ; Justin Morrison, partner in the drygoods firm of Buttles & Matthews; MeElvain, Dalzell & Co., wholesale
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grocers and commission warehouse; Kent & Glazier, general merchandise ; Bridgman & McClelland, corner of High and Broad Streets, merchant tailors ; J. Ridgway & Co., successors to S. Cutler & Co., forwarding and commission ; Williams & Cockerill, tailors ; John Abbott & Co., brewers ; Robert Russell & Co., drygoods ; Sumner Clark, drygoods and groceries ; and Doherty & Leiby, agents of the Troy & Erie line of canal packets, forwarding and commission.
Among the new business names of 1833 were those of Burr & Sherwood, Olm" sted & St. Clair, and Sherwood & Gregory, grocers; Brownrigg & Tartt and Burr & Gregory, drygoods ; D. S. Bradstreet, drugs and chemicals; Unman Baker, cabinet ware; S. M. Whitworth, clothing; William M. Kasson & Co . hardware, hollow ware, and tin and sheet iron work ; T. Van Horn, jeweler; William Burdell and William Armstrong, tailors ; William M. Blake, hoots and shoes ; Morris Butler, books and stationery ; C. W. Kent & Co., livery stable; and Dodge, Cowles & Co., comb factory.
In the business calendar of 1834 we find the names of B. Smith & Co., tailors ; C. W. Kent, southwest corner of High and Town Streets, anction and commission ; S. M. Whitworth, on Broad Street, near the Episcopal Church, clothing and groceries; Chester Mattoon, West State Street, bookbindery : Peter Ambos, " in the building immediately south of Mr. Greenwood's store, High Street," confec- tioner; H. G. Spayth, " in room lately occupied by Doherty & Leiby, Goodale's Row," druggist ; Rndisill & Wiley, corner of High and Town streets, hatters ; Ira Grover, Broad Street, near the Episcopal Church, " white marble tombstones ;" J. & S. Stone, brokers and drygoods merchants, Commercial Row; Charles Scott, wholesale paper warehouse ; Champion & Lathrop (J. N. Champion and Henry Lathrop), "in the store late ocenpied by Bond & Walbridge," drygoods; McCul- lough & Son, next door to Young's Coffeehouse, High Street, fashionable tailoring ; John Abbott & Co., corner of Front and Spring streets, brewery ; and J. B. Crist, on High Street, opposite the Statehouse, bookstore.
Some of the new partnerships of 1835 are those of William Hamilton & Co., bakery, corner of Rich and High ; MeElvain, Hunter & Co., wool buyers ; Lazell & Mattoon, bookbinders; Henry Glover & Co., iron store, Exchange Buildings ; He- rancourt & Dresbach, jewelers ; Stewart & Osborn, drygoods; S. & S. B. Stanton, Commercial Row, drygoods; and S. W. & J. E. Palmer, hardware. Contemporary with these were James W. McCoy, hatter ; William M. Kasson, hardware; W. H. Richards, China, glass and queensware ; Mrs. Dunnavant, dressmaker ; J. N. Town- ly and Samuel McClelland, merchant tailors ; Thomas Bridgman, draper and tailor; Walter Amos, tailor ; and Daniel E. Ball, saddlery.
By this time various business blocks had been erected, and had become locally celebrated by such names as their owners or popular fancy had aseribed to them. Among these blocks was that known as Goodale's Row, erected by Doctor Lincoln Goodale, on the west side of South High Street, extending from Chapel Alley South, and including the present location occupied by Kilbourn, Jones & Co. The Commercial Buildings, commonly known as the Commercial Row, stood on the southeast corner of Main and High streets. The Exchange Buildings, sometimes called the Broadway Exchange, owned by W. S. Sullivant, held, for many years' one of the most conspicuous places, if not the chief distinction, among the business
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centers of Columbus. These buildings were situated on the south side of West Broad Street, extending west from the present site of the Huntington Bank. The Buckeye Building, or as it was sometimes called, the Buckeye Block, rose on the northeast corner of Broad and High. A warehouse built by the Ridgways, near the Broad Street Bridge, was known as the Franklin Building. A row called the Eight Buildings stood on West Town Street, south side, a short distance west of High.
Among the most conspicuous partnership and individual business names which appear subsequently to those already recorded were the following :
1836 - S. W. & J. E. Palmer, hardware, Commercial Buildings ; Hammond Howe, real estate; John Marey, brewer, Front Street; Kasson & MeCune, hard- ware ; Kerr & Mitton, successors to O. & S. Crosby, drugs, Broadway Exchange ; Thomas S. Butler, drugs, next door to the National Hotel; J. L. Peters and A. J. Cain, successors to Tunis Peters, tanners; W. Starr, drygoods and produce ; l'enney & Judd, drygoods, Commercial Row; E. & A. Case, readymade clothing ; II. N. Owen & Co., merchant tailors, Exchange Buildings; Dolson, Jessup & Co., drygoods, Commercial Buildings; Monroe Bell, bookstore, a little south of the National Hotel; L. S. Hubbard, drygoods, Commercial Buildings; and Dennis Neil, merchant tailor, Exchange Buildings.
1837 - A newspaper business directory for this year, which does not seem to have ever gotten into print in any other form, is here reproduced :5
Drygoods - McCoy, Work & McCoy, corner of High and State; W. Hance, northeast corner High and Friend ; Champion & Lathrop, Exchange Buildings; J. B. Crist, ditto; Greenwood & King, High, between Town and Rich ; S. & S. B. Stanton, northeast corner Iligh and Rich ; D. Brooks, east side of High, between Friend and Rich ; Joseph beiby, northwest corner High and Rich ; D. Woodbury & Co., southeast corner High and Friend ; J. & S. Stone, Iligh, second door below Friend ; D. W. Deshler, northwest corner Broad and High ; P. H. Olmsted, High, next door to Russell's Tavern; Stewart & Osborn, High, east side; D. E. Ball, High, corner Sugar Alley; J. Baldwin & Co., High, corner Sugar Alley ; M. B. Cushing, High, Goodale's Row; Case & Judd, ditto; McElvain, Snyder & Co., ditto ; Warner & Penney, ditto; L. Goodale & Co., ditto; Matthews & Morrison, north- west corner High and Town.
Watches and jewelry -William A. Platt, High, opposite Statehouse; C. A. Richard, High, east side, near Rich ; G. M. Ilerancourt, High, east side.
Booksellers and binders - Lazell & Mattoon, High opposite Statchouse; Mon- roc Bell, High, opposite Public Offices; Isaac N. Whiting, High Street.
Hotels and coffee houses -American Hotel, C. F. Dresbach, High, opposite Statehouse; Eagle Coffeehouse, John Young, High, opposite Public Buildings ; National Hotel, John Noble, High, opposite Public Offices; National Coffeehouse. Theodore L. Shields ; Lafayette Coffochouse, E. P. Hare, High, opposite Courthouse ; Clinton Coffeehouse, T. Martin, High, corner Public Alley ; Lion Hotel. J. Arin- strong, between Town and Rich ; Robinson's City House, southeast corner ligh and Town ; Swau Hotel, Christian Heyl, Iligh, east side, corner Cherry Alley : Ilotel, P. C. Whitehead, High, south of Mound ; Tontine Coffeehouse, S. like & Co.,
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State Street, south side, opposite Markethouse; Inn, Thomas Cadwallader, Broad, near the Bridge; Broadway House, T. Thomas, Broad, opposite Public Square; Globe Hotel, R. Russell, High Street ; Farmers' Inn, John Moyer, south west corner Friend and High.
Stage offices - Opposition Stage Company, High, next door to Eagle Coffee- house ; Neil, Moore & Co., High, next to National Hotel.
Grocers - W. F. Sanderson, High, opposite Public Offices; O. Risley & Co., Broadway Exchange; F. Bentz, bakery and grocery, High, near Rich ; J. P. Brooks, southwest corner High and Rich; W. Hance (also drygoods), northeast corner High and Friend ; McElvain, Hunter & Co., Broad Street, Franklin Build- ings ; G. W. Higgins & Co., High Street, east side; John Bown, southeast corner High and State ; Gregory, Burr & Gregory, High, east side.
Merchant tailors- Johnson & Burdell, High, opposite Public Offices; W. Williams, High, between Town and Rich ; Adams & Townley, High, east side ; Walter Amos, ditto ; E. Gaver, State Street, opposite Statehouse; Samuel Mc- Clelland, southeast corner High and State; Thomas Bridgman, High, opposite Public Offices.
Druggists - Thomas S. Butler, High, opposite Public Offices ; John M. Kerr, Exchange Buildings corner High and Broad; S. Clark, High, next door to Armstrong's Tavern, M. Jewett, "Chemical Laboratory & Medical Store," Rich west of Front.
Hatters-J. W. McCoy, High Street, opposite Courthouse; J. E. Rudisill, northeast corner High and Town; C. Dermott, Broad, opposite Public Square.
Postoffice - Bela Latham, Postmaster, High, near corner of Broad.
Stoves and Tinware - W. A. Gil & Co., Broadway Exchange ; S. W. & J. E. Palmer, ditto.
Hardware - H. Glover & Co., Broadway Exchange; Kasson & Co., High Street ; S. W. & J. E Palmer, Goodale's Row; Ira Grover, marble and hardware, Broad, opposite Public Square.
Printing offices - Ohio State Journal, State Street, third door west of Clinton Bank ; Register office, J. M. Gallagher, Broadway Exchange ; Hemisphere office, S. Medary & Brothers, Exchange Buildings; E. Glover, Front, south of Mound ; Cutler & Pillsbury, High Street, north of Broad.
Cabinetware - S. Z. Seltzer, High, east side, between Friend and Rich ; John Smith, High, opposite Heyl's Tavern ; A. Backus, High, east side, south of City House ; I. G. Dryer, High, east side, south of Rich.
Confectioners - Ambos & Eigner, High, corner Walnut Alley.
Architect - N. B. Kelly, Architect of the Lunatic and Blind asylums, over Leiby's store.
Auctioneer - W. J. Tyler, High, basement of Brooks's Tavern.
Chairmakers - A. G. Hibbs, High, east side, south of Rich ; J. C. Brodrick, northeast corner High and Town.
Wagonmakers - John Emmick, Friend, north side ; John Otstot, Front, south of Friend.
Carding machine - G. Jefferies, between Friend and Mound, west of High.
Tobacconist - A. Stotts, High, west side, south of Mound.
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Tanneries - J. L. Peters, south end of High, at the bridge ; P. Putnam, corner Front and Rich.
Foundry - J. Ridgway & Co., plow manufacturers, near the river, north of Broad Street.
Schoolrooms - J. O. Masterson, Broadway Exchange; J. M. C. Haseltine, Third Street, opposite Baptist Church.
Shoustores - W. Keith & Co., High, next to Greenwood & King; James Cherry, Friend, between High and Front.
Gunsmith - Samuel Thompson, Friend, between High and Front.
Blacksmiths- L. B. Pinney, northwest corner Front and Public Alley ; Wil- liam Harrison, High, opposite Heyl's Tavern.
Coachmakers - Robert Cutler, High, north of Broad ; Pinney & Evans, corner Publie and Fair alleys.
Carpenters - J. Neereamer, Town, east of High ; John Lakin, Town, between Fourth and Fifth ; Jacob Turner, corner Fourth and Town.
Saddlers - Philip Reed, High, east side : C. A Barker, High, next to Franklin Bank ; D. E. Ball, High, east side.
Brewery - L. Hoster & Co, City Brewery, south end of Front Street
Livery Stable - W. Barker, Fair Alley, rear of Eagle Coffeehouse.
Forwarding and commission - Z. Hanford, Franklin Building; B. Comstock & Co., also pork dealers.
Lumber - Casey & Field, Third, between State and Town.
Plasterer - Thomas Y Miles, Front, south of Town.
Leather - I. Taylor & Sons, opposite market, south side of State.
Banks - Clinton Bank , southwest corner High and State ; Franklin Bank, High Street, east side.
Painter and glazier - Thomas Bowns, State, opposite Statehouse.
Upholsterer - James Aston, State, opposite Statehouse
Sa Idlery and coach and harness hardware - P. Hayden & Co., late the Co- lumbus Manufacturing Company, importers, manufacturers and wholesale dealers.
To the foregoing list should be added the following changes for the year 1837: John Siebert opens a new drygoods store in the Commercial Row ; O. Risley & Co. (O. Risley and M. L. Sullivant) dissolved partnership; David Brooks resumes management of the Eagle Hotel ; H. Baldwin opens a drygoods business in the Franklin Buildings; L. Mccullough resumes tailoring on High Street, opposite the Statehouse ; John French opens a drugstore on West Broad Street, third door from the bridge ; Spilman & Carroll, tailors, succeed Ferguson & Spilman.
1838 - The following business changes and new names appear in this year's record : A. A. Stewart succeeds Stewart & Hall in tailoring ; B. F. Conway and M. B. Ross succeed Conway and Avery in forwarding and commission ; Adams & Townley, merchant tailors, remove to the vicinity of Young's Coffeehouse, on High Street ; S. W. Palmer, hardware, removes from Goodale's Row to the Exchange Buildings ; P. Ambos snceceds himself and George Eigner, confectioners; Kasson & Co. (A. & C. W. Kasson and Thomas R. Disbrow) dissotve partnership, and are succeeded by Clarke, Runyan & Co .; M. Dresbach withdraws from the American Hotel business, and is succeeded by S. Pike, Jumor, and William Kelsey ; John
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