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Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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estness and precision thatis (juite amusing. It is reasonable to su))i)Ose that this boywill work for .\Ir. Bixby while his master sleeps. Anotheradvertising scheme thai emanated from Mr. Bixbys fertilebrain was the three-wheeled wagon which created a wellremembered sensation in every city, town, vi lage and hamletthrough which it passed. This wagon was a circus in itself.If any one would like to know what a great industry themanufacture of blacking really is, let him visit the mammothestablishment of S. .M. Bixby & Co., see the number of handsem))l()ved. and the complex machinery and vast amount ofraw material in process t)f manufacture. It is a large, six-storystructure, filled up with all the machinery and ajiiiliancesnecessary to the production of the finest and most pojjularblacking in the world. The company controlling thisindustry is incorporated, and the president is the orig-inal Mr. Bixby himself. Though the annual sale ofthe products now aggregates several hundred thou-
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I i83 sand dollars, and the Imsiness swims prosi)eronsly ontoward the million point, it must not be supposed thatthe founder achieved this ilegree of success with-out great difficulty. On the contrary, the obstacles hehad to surmount were so great that, as he now is free to con-fess, could he have foreseen them it is probable he would nothave undertaken such an enterprise. Mr. Eixby was bornin New Hampshire, May 27, 1833, and his father, who was afarmer, raised several sons, who, like the subject of oursketch, ha\e all become successful in their chosen occupa-tions. He was married in 1861 to Mary E. Iraphagen, ofNewburg, N. Y., but has no family. Mrs. Bixby is of Franco-German descent, but her i)arents were born in this country.While still a boy Mr. Bixby was employed as clerk in a store,and when not quite eighteen went into business .for himself.The man for whom he was clerking died, and young Mr.Bixby—who always won the esteem of those with whom hecame in contact—was started in

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