f: Kirkland & von Sacks; A. Kirkland,
one of the incorporators of the New York Coffee Exchange, with Small
Bros. & Co., then with W.J. Kirkland as Kirkland Bros., and, upon the
dissolution of that firm, with F.H. Leggett & Co.; Thomas Rutter & Co.;
Teacle Wallace Lewis, with Rowland, Humphreys & Co., later head of the
coffee department of Carter, Macy & Co., and still later, head of T.W.
Lewis & Co.; Abraham Sanger, of Sanger, Beers & Fisher, later Sanger &
Wells; J.W. Wilson & Co.; Dykes & Wilson; Peter, John, and Joseph J.
O'Donohue, of John O'Donohue's Sons; Joseph J. O'Donohue & Sons; Otis W.
Booth, of Booth & Linsley; A.G. Hildreth; James H. Kirby, of B.G. Arnold
& Co., later of Kirby, Halstead & Chapin, afterward Kirby & Halstead;
Major Henry D. Tyler; Thomas H. Messenger & Co.; Harvey H. Palmer, of
H.H. Palmer & Co.; B. O. Bowers, of Wilson & Bowers, later Thompson &
Bowers; and August Haeussler, first with C. Risley & Co., then with J.
H. Labaree & Co., and finally with the green coffee department of Geo.
H. McFadden & Brother.
John Hanley, with Carey & Co., later of Hanley & Kinsella, St. Louis;
Robert C. Hewitt, Jr., who wrote one of the early books on coffee
(_Coffee, its History, Cultivation, and Uses_, 1872), of Hewitt & Phyfe,
later Jas. W. Phyfe & Co.; James W. Phyfe of Hewitt & Phyfe, later Jas.
W. Phyfe & Co.; Daniel A. Shaw, of Jas. W. Phyfe & Co.; B. Lahey, of
Jas. W. Phyfe & Co.; and Winthrop G. Ray & Co.
These names, too, will live long in green coffee history: Reid, Murdock
& Fischer, New York and Chicago; Charles A. and Watts Miller, and David
Palmer, of D.J. Ely & Co., formerly D.J. & Z.S. Ely Co., New York and
Baltimore; Harry Miller, with D.J. Ely & Co., later of Miller &
Walbridge; Augustus Walbridge, of Smith & Walbridge, afterward Augustus
M. Walbridge, Inc.; Clarence Smith, of M.V.R. Smith's Sons, later of
Smith & Walbridge; Stevens, Armstrong & Hartshorn, later Stevens &
Armstrong, then Stevens Bros. & Co., and finally Reamer, Turner & Co.,
including Abraham Reamer, Sr., and William F. Turner.
[Illustration: AT 87 WALL STREET, N.Y., YEARS AGO
Among the green coffee men in this picture are Clarence Creighton, John
Enright, Chris Arndt, W. Lee Simmonds, John Ashlin, F. Loderose, Julius
Steinwender, and Clinton Whiting]
[Illustration: WALL AND FRONT STREETS, NEW YORK, SPRING OF 1922
Looking up Wall Street from the East River. The first cross street is
Front; beyond are to be seen
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