Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Norman MacLeod & Company

N. MacL. & CO.

MAY 7- 1902

Philadelphia.

from Moses King's Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians, 1902

MacLeod & Co. also traded at the NYSE starting in 1901 through their seated broker Robert E. Bowen.

 

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Drexel & Company

DREXEL & CO.

APR - 1899

PHILADELPHIA

Poor's Manual, 1886

 

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: George A. Huhn & Sons

GEO. A. HUHN & SONS BANKERS.

PHILA.

From The History of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, ed. Andrew Wallace Barnes:

The banking firm of George A. Huhn & Sons was founded in January, 1894, by George A. Huhn, and first opened for business at 143 South Fourth Street.  Associated with him in the business were his sons George A. Huhn Jr., and Samuel P. Huhn.  A general banking business, besides operations in the purchase and sale of investment securities, the issues of municipal or public service securities, stocks and bonds, was carried by the firm.

George Huhn maintained a seat at the New York Stock Exchange throughout the 1898 tax period.  

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Toland Brothers

Toland Brothers & Company primarily traded on the Philadelphia exchange but senior partner E. D. Toland also held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. The above memo, for shares in the "Philadelphia Company", was for a sale made on the Philadelphia Exchange. Unfortunately the cancel is not clear. 

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Bioren & Company

 

BIOREN & CO.

From Who's Who in Philadelphia in Wartime, 1920

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Robert Koons & Company

 

ROBT. KOONS,

OCT

15

1900

PHILADA.

from The Commercial & Financial Chronicle, April 2, 1892

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Parrish & Company

 

Morris L. Parrish was a seated member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.  He sold 100 shares of Philadelphia Electric to Sailer & Stevenson @ 5 7/8s

PARRISH & Co.

JAN

14

1901

PHILADA.

Princeton University maintains the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists.

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: A. M. Friend & Company

A. M. Friend & Commpany brokers memo for 100 shares of Philadelphia Electric sold to Sailer & Stevenson @$6.00.  Sailer & Stevenson was a firm listed at the Philadelphia Exchange.

A. M. F. & CO.,

JAN 17 1901

Albert M. Friend held a seat on the Philadelphia Exchange.

 

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Working Towards a Complete List

Much like the Boston Stock Exchange, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange was very active during the 1898 tax period and had as members firms which actively traded on more than one exchange in the United States, in particular in New York.  Some, like Thomas Biddle & Company, only traded in Philadelphia.  Either way, a collector might aspire to finding cancels from all the firms and brokers that traded in Philadelphia.  To assist the task I've included the list of brokers and firms at the Philadelphia exchange that was a part of the Moody's Manual in 1901.

Thos. A. Biddle & Co.

DEC

1

1898

PHILA.

I will begin to expand the database that has been build of brokers and firms at the New York Stock Exchange from 1898-1902 by adding the Philly, Boston and other brokers by putting them by city on different sheets in the Google Sheet.  If you are interested in access to the Google Sheet, please let me know at 1898revenues@gmail.com and I will send you a link to a read-only but searchable version.

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Bioren & Company

 

BIOREN & CO.

From Who's Who in Philadelphia in Wartime, 1920

New York and Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Wolf Brothers & Company

American Jewish Yearbook, 1905

Wolf Brothers memorandum of sale for 100 shares of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway stock @ 171 1/8.

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: George A. Huhn & Sons

GEO. A. HUHN & SONS BANKERS.

DEC

6

1898

PHILA.

David Thompson scan

From The History of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, ed. Andrew Wallace Barnes:

The banking firm of George A. Huhn & Sons was founded in January, 1894, by George A. Huhn, and first opened for business at 143 South Fourth Street.  Associated with him in the business were his sons George A. Huhn Jr., and Samuel P. Hugh.

A general banking business, besides operations in the purchase and sale of investment securities, the issues of municipal or public service securities, stocks and bonds, was carried by the firm.

Philadelphia Stock Brokers: Edward B. Smith & Company

This is the logo for the present firm Mogan Stanley Smith Barney.  Edward Smith's company merged with Charles D. Barney & Company in 1938 to become Smith Barney & Company.  Smith Barney became famous in the 1970s for a series of John Houseman television commercials in which he said: "Smith Barney, they make money the old fashioned way...they earn it."  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney is presently a joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Citigroup.

EDWARD B. SMITH

OCT  14  1901

Langlois scan