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Title: A history of the New York Swamp
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Norcross, Frank W
Subjects: Leather industry and trade -- New York (State) New York Tanning New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Chiswick Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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owned by A. K. Ely. The store next to thecorner of Frankfort street was built by Gurdon B.Horton and used by him for some years as aleather store. Tan vats and a tanned hide werefound in making the excavation. FERRY STREET This street was laid out in 1740, and its widthhas never been changed. There are only a fewmodern buildings in Ferry street. Most of thetnwere built by merchants whose fortunes were accu-mulated in that locality. The large six-story structure on the southeastcorner of Ferry and Gold streets was built in 1845by Charles W. Trotter, a morocco manufacturer.Israel Corse, Jr., Stout & Tuttle and H. D. Hull &Co. successively did business on this corner. No.4 was also built by Mr. Trotter and occupied byVan Wagenar & Tuttle until 1873, when HenryArthur, who was then occupying the corner, leasedit in order to enlarge his leather and findings es-tablishment. Nos. 6 and 8 were built by EugeneKeteltas, a leather dealer. Wm. Rutter, J. B.&T. HISTORY OF THE SWAM I
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SWAMP STREETS 25 Johnson and S. W. Baldwin & Son were success-ively occiipanls of No. 6. At No. 8 M. Armstrongcommenced business when he first came into theSwamp. In 1869 and for several years afterwardsMaurice S. Kerrigan used this store for his mo-rocco business. The Oilman family owned No. 10 for severalyears. \\\ W. Gilnian had a leather store there.His son succeeded but did not remain long in thetrade. Joseph Hecht bought the premises about1894 and enlarged and greatly improved them.Sellman & Co. are the occupants. At No. 14 (there is no No. 12) Jacob Lorillardv.-as a special partner and he built the store in 1839for Isaac BuUard. Wlien the estate of BuUard &Co. was settled, Louis H. Bullard bought thisproperty. The store, No. 18, was built by Ogden E. Ed-wards, son of William Edwards, the celebratedtanner, and grandson of the great theologian ofWestern Massachusetts, Jonathan Edwards. Og-den E. Edwards failed and the building, which hadbeen mortgaged for $25,000, was

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