Insurance Agent Cancels: Daniel J. Dunphy of Passaic, New Jersey

DAN'L J. DUNPHY,

MAR

14

1900

Passaic, N. J.

Passaic Daily Herald, November 22, 1913

Insurance Agent Cancels: Covert & Company of Austin, Texas

COVERT & CO.

FEB

15

1899

AUSTIN, TEX

from The Austin Daily Statesman, January 31, 1907

Insurance Company Cancels: Standard Fire Insurance Company

STANDARD

JAN 18 1899

FIRE INS. CO.

 

Insurance Company Documents: American Surety Company Bonds

American Surety Company first appeared here June 6, 2023.  Today is presented two performance bonds.

They are both courtesy of David Thompson who sent them to me awhile back.  The first is a Motorman's bond: 

And a Conductor's bond:  

Each of these bonds were used to bond the operators of street railroad cars in Chicago; each put money up front to help guarantee their safe operation of the cars since the conductor and motorman had their money at risk.  It is likely that the City of Chicago or the Chicago Union Tracation Company required operators to hold these bonds in order to be allowed to work.

New York Stock Brokers: Theodore W. Myers & Son

Theodore W. Myers, from The Stock Exchange in Caricature, V2 1904

Theodore and Lawrence Myers were both members of the New York Stock Exchange throughout the 1898 tax period.  

 

stock sale memo for 200 shares of the Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee Railway

the sold to line is blank!

New York Stock Brokers: Charles I. Hudson & Company

Charles I. Hudson, from the Stock Exchange in Caricature, V2 1904

Hudson's firm was quite large and employed nine different seated members of the New York Stock Exchange between 1898 and 1902.  The firm's cancels may be found in both wide oval and CDS formats. 

from Moody's Manual, 1904

Albert O. Brown from The Stock Market in Caricature, 1904 Vol. 1.

Mr. Brown held a seat at the NYSE and traded for Charles I. Hudson throughout the tax period from 1898 to 1902.  Monson Morris, below, started trading for Hudson at the end of the tax period in 1902.  You can find this cartoon in the second volume of the The Stock Market in Caricature.

New York Stock Brokers: William H. Granberry & Company

from The Stock Exchange in Caricature, V2 1904

New York Stock Brokers: LeGrand L. Benedict

 

from The Stock Exchange in Caricature, Vol.2, 1904

Liquor Merchant Cancels: Slater, Myers & Company of Richmond, Virginia

 

SLATER, MYERS & CO.

1900

 Richmond, Va.

Cigar and Tobacco Cancels: Joseph Whitcomb & Company of Springfield, Massachusetts

JOSEPH WHITCOMB & CO.

OCT

11

1899

Springfield, Mass.

from The Pnyx, the Springfield High School Yearbook of 1901

Nothing like advertising tobacco to high school kids, and, to those same kids as they grow older and  reminisce, look through their yeabook, and think about the good times.  I wonder if the Sacklers ever placed ocycontin ads in yearbooks.  The Pnyx, by the way, is a hill in Athens where the ancient Athenians would gather for public assemblies.

Cigar and Liquor Merchants: Walker Brothers & Company of New Orleans

Walker Bros. & Co.

OCT 11 1898

New Orleans, La.

 

St. Louis Dry Goods Merchants Rice, Stix & Company

RICE, STIX & CO.

AUG 29 1898

CANCELLED

St. Louis Department Store The Grand-Leader, a Stix, Baer & Fuller Dry Goods Company Property

 

GRAND-LEADER

DEC 10 1898

CANCELLED

The Grand Leader department store was one of the first mega department stores in the United States. It quickly outgrew its location on the corner of Broadway and Washington in St Louis, moving to a larger store in 1906 at the corner of 6th Street and Washington. It later became the Stix, Baer, & Fuller department store. 

Industrial Company Cancels: Namasket Mills, Taunton, Massachusetts

 

NEMASKET

APR

15

1899

MILLS

The Nemasket Mills Corporation was established in 1891 for cotton textile manufacture on the western portion of the former site of the Old Colony Iron Works in Taunton, Massachusetts.  In 1899, this mill was acquired by New England Cotton Yarn Company, which also included the Cohannet Mills in Taunton, and several other mills in Fall River and New Bedford. The company's Taunton mills were sold in June, 1916.

Nemasket Mills 1899

Nemasket Mills today, now known as The Riverbend Condos

Leggett & Brother, Specialists in Drugs and Lead Paint

 

LEGGETT & BROTHER

MAY 4 1900

NEW YORK

inset from check below:

Leggett & Brother sold paint made by ACME White Lead & Color Works.  They also are listed in the BDR2.

New York Stock Brokers in Caricature: James M. McGovern

 

James McGovern held a seat at the NYSE throughout the 1898 tax period.

James "Jimmie" McGovern "in caricature".

It appears that James McGovern was commonly called "Jimmie".

Rhode Island Bankers & Brokers: Richardson & Clark of Providence

from The Commercial & Financial Chronicle, April 27, 1907

RICHARDSON & CLARK.

JAN

17

1902

PROV. R. I.

New York Bankers and Brokers: Watson & Gibson

from the History of the New York Stock Exchange, 1887

By the beginning of the 1898 tax period, it does not appear that Watson & Gibson had partners with memberships at the New York Stock Exchange.  

WATSON & GIBSON,

MAY

8

1899

NEW YORK.

WATSON & GIBSON,

DEC

9

1899

NEW YORK.

WATSON & GIBSON,

NOV

19

1898

NEW YORK.

WATSON & GIBSON,

NOV

9

1899

NEW YORK.

New York Stock Brokers: J. Norman Whitehouse of Whitehouse & Company

Whitehouse & Company handstamp and punch cancels

J. Norman Whitehouse's caricature in the 1904 volume, The Stock Exchange in Caricature.

Norman was a seated partner at the NYSE with what appears to be his father J. Henry and his brother, George M., in addition to a third partner, Augustus Marckwald who also held seats.  Whitehouse must have been a very busy firm to afford so many seated partners.  According to the artist and the writer of doggerel in the book, Norman must have been something of a social butterfly and a ladies man, in addition to a polyglot:

Whitehouse & Co has appeared before on this site, the last time in a post featuring companies that used initial punch cancels during the 1898 tax period.