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Please Note:
The following business advertisements have
been collected from various city and business
directories. In most cases, they have been
edited to enhance their appearance as they
were either very faded or a microfilmed copy
had printed poorly. When possible, research
has been undertaken and an explanation of the
business, its owners, and its history has
been included.
Should you
find any errors in my research, if you can
add further information, or you'd simply like
to drop me an email ... please feel free to
contact Patricia
Davidson-Peters.
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| When this
advertisement was first located in the
1850 St. Louis Directory, it was hoped
that the Charles F. Hendry listed here
might prove to be of the same family as
Elihu E. Hendry who married Mary Jane
Pilcher. Unfortunately, this Charles F.
Hendry who was located in the 1850 census
residing in St. Louis and listed as a
leather merchant, was born in Trenton,
New Jersey on 22 Dec 1811 and died in
Amboy, NJ on 15 Mar 1883. He was one of
the pioneer merchants of St. Louis and
was identified with the early local
benevolent and political movements of
that city. He was was married to Ann
Frances Kelly on 14 May 1845, she being
the daughter of John Kelly who had
eimgratred from Ireland to Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. Elihu Emory Hendry,
relative to the Moore and Pilcher
families, was born in Tennessee on 09 Dec
1829. He married Mary Jane Pilcher in St.
Louis on 14 Feb 1860, she being the
daughter of Ezekiel Pilcher and his wife
Louisa (Ballard). They were the parents
of Clara and Sarah Louise, who were also
referred to as Dolly and Lulu
respectively. Besides St. Louis, they
resided in the counties of Greene and
Dallas. A letter of Mary Jane to her
sister Clara in about 1873 remains in the
possession of P. Davidson-Peters and was
written from Springfield, Missouri. For
additional information on Elihu, see my
PDP's Roots & Branches Blog "Elihu
Emory Hendry - St. Louis Carpenter,
Husband of Jane."
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| The Liggett &
Myer Tobacco Company, producers of what
we would come to know as L&M brand of
cigarettes, was a business whose roots
extend to Christopher Foulks who moved
his family to Belleville, Illinois after
the British soldiers had burned down his
snuff mill in New Jersey. He later moved
to St. Louis where he opened a tobacco
shop. In about 1820 his daughter,
Elizabeth Foulks, married Joseph Liggett.
who had been born 20 Feb 1798 and they
were the parents of at least Mortimer,
John Edmund, and William Carr Lane
Liggett. After Joseph's death
on 12 Apr 1829, Elizabeth married Hiram
H. Shaw. Their marriage took place in St.
Louis on 16 Nov 1830. They were
enumerated in the 1850 & 1860 census
records residing in that city and their
household included Elizabeth's son, John
Edmund Liggett and his family. At the age
of eighteen, he had entered the employ of
Foulks & Shaw tobacco manufacturers,
the members of the firm being his
maternal grandfather (Christopher Foulks)
and stepfather (Hiram Shaw). John then
became a partner of the firm known as
Hiram Shaw & Co. A year and a half
later his brother Willian Carr Lane
"W.C.L." Liggett purchased
Shaw's interest, and the name was changed
to J.E. Liggett & Bro. to reflect the
change as it is shown here in the 1850
St. Louis Directory.
W.C.L.
Liggett sold his interest to Henry
Dausman and for eighteen years it was
known as Liggett & Dausman. In 1873,
George S. Myers purchased Dausman's
interest and the business was then known
as Liggett & Myers which was
incorporated as Liggett & Myer
Tobacco Manufacturing Company in 1878,
and for many years thereafter.
John
Edmund Liggett died in St. Louis on 23
Nov 1897, his widow Elizabeth Jane
(Calbreath) whom he married 21 Dec 1851,
died in St. Louis on 07 May 1909.
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 Hiram Shaw -
Hatter of Lexington, KY |
| Brief
Biographical Sketch of John Edmund
Liggett |
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| Isaac V. Mossman was
born in Centerville, Wayne Co., Indiana
on 08 Aug 1830 and was the son of George
Mossman and Hannah (Brown). The family
moved to Mercer Co., Illinois in about
1838 and settled near Keithsburg. In
October of 1853 he arrived in Oregon
City, and a couple years later enlisted
with the Oregon Mounted Volunteers who
fought in the Yakima Indian War. Wounded
in the battle at Walla Wall, he
recouperated at The Dalles several months
and then went to the Walla Walla
Territory in Washington. Not long after,
he began his own Pony Express between the
town of Walla Walla and Orofino gold
mines in the mountains east of the Snake
River in the area which is now Clearwater
County, Idaho. Isaac's advertisement
was taken from the Oregon &
Washington Almanac of 1863, and from his
writings, A Pony Expressman's
Recollections, he explains: "The
company was generally known as Mossman's
Express, although for a short time it was
actually Mossman & Miller's Express.
When (Joaquin) Miller left, I took in as
partners J.C. Franklin, Thomas Paulson,
Put Smith and one John McBride. We did a
good business. For some time Franklin
stayed in Portland, bought gold dust and
spent money freely on himsefl and wife.
McBride rode as messenger between
Florence and Lewiston. One night he
gambled off $2000 of the company's money
and then skipped to Montana.
One
disaster after another overtook me, and
in June, 1863, two years after my first
trip into Oron Fino, I was forced to
close out to Wells, Fargo & Co.
Afterwards I made a few trips to Granite
Creek, Elk City, and Auburn, on Powder
River; but in the spring of 1863 I quit
the express business only about $1000
ahead for my two years' work."
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| Isaac V.
Mossman (circa 1860) |
| Mossman
Ancestry |
| Time Line of
Isaac Van Dorsey Mossman |
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