on & Co.
D.Y. Harrison is said to have been the first man to roast coffee west of
Pittsburg.

The Heekin Company was established in 1870 by James Heekin and Barney
Corbett as a partnership under the name of Corbett & Heekin. In a short
time, Corbett died; and the name of the firm was then changed to James
Heekin & Co. Alexander Stuart was admitted to the partnership about
1883, and retired four years later. James J. Heekin, older son of James
Heekin, was admitted to partnership in 1892. Charles Lewis, after twenty
years' experience in the coffee trade in Louisville, Cincinnati, and New
York, was admitted to the firm in 1895. James Heekin died in 1904. Upon
his death, a corporation was formed under the name of the James Heekin
Company, with Charles Lewis as president, continuing until he retired in
1919. In this year a new corporation, called the Heekin Company, was
formed, taking over the business of the James Heekin Co. and the Heekin
Spice Co., the latter having been organized in 1899. James J. Heekin was
chosen president of the new company, with Albert E. Heekin,
vice-president; and Robert E. Heekin, secretary and general manager.

[Illustration: PIONEER COFFEE ROASTERS OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN
UNITED STATES

1--J.B. Sinnot, New Orleans; 2--Julius J. Schotten, St. Louis;
3--Charles Stoffregen, St. Louis; 4--W.T. Jones, New Orleans; 5--J.A.
Folger. jr., San Francisco; 6--M.E. Smith, St. Louis; 7--A.E. Forbes,
St. Louis; 8--David G. Evans, St. Louis; 9--W.J. Kinsella, St. Louis;
10--James H. Forbes, St. Louis; 11--J.A. Folger, Sr., San Francisco;
12--Joseph Closset, Portland, Ore.; 13--J. Zinsmeister, Louisville;
14--Wm. Schotten, St. Louis; 15--A. Schilling, San Francisco; 16--M.J.
Brandenstein, San Francisco; 17--J.O. Cheek, Nashville; 18--A.H. Devers,
Portland, Ore.]

LOUISVILLE. Pioneers in this early center of coffee roasting in the
south were: Thornton & Hawkins; Charles J. Bouche; H.N. Gage; A.
Engelhard; and Jacob Zinsmeister.

R.J. Thornton & Co. were founded in 1837 by Richard J. Thornton and
Thomas Hawkins, as Thornton & Hawkins. Thornton died in 1860. His
interests remained, but the firm changed to Hawkins & Thornton. Hawkins
died in 1877, and Mrs. Thornton, having purchased the Hawkins interest,
ran the business as R.J. Thornton & Co. until her death in 1885. John
Hayes, her son-in-law, then bought the company; and when he died in
1904, his widow ran the business with Thomas A. Crawford as manager