Identifier: chicagohistorybui04curr (find matches)
Title: Chicago: its history and its builders ..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844
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Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Mr. Pierson has shown marked origi-nality in designing his own caskets and making designs for his motor cars. His ideas,new and original, are strongly artistic and he deserves mention among the mostprominent representatives of the profession in Chicago. He was born in Swedenin 1852 and was sixteen and a half years of age when he bade adieu to friends andnative land and sailed for the new world. Crossing the Atlantic, he arrived inConnecticut, where he resided until ISSi, after which he served for five years inthe United States armv and was then honorablv discharged in 1889. At the closeof his military experience he came to Chicago and in 1890 he turned his attention tothe tailoring business, in which he engaged until 1896. It was in that year that liebecame established in the undertaking business at Seventy-fifth street and Dobsonavenue, where he continued for ten years. On the expiration of that period heerected his own place at No. 7350 Cottage Grove avenue, where he has a building
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CHICAGO: ITS HISTORY AND ITS BUILDERS 113 two stories in height^ with a forty-foot frontage. It is most beautifully and tastefullyarranged, being different in design from that of any undertaking parlor in the world.Every convenience and equipment has been provided and the place gives the idea of aquiet home rather than of a place to care for the dead. His own residence is theupper floor of the building. As previously indicated, Mr. Pierson is most original in his methods. He has hisowTi way of training assistants and he personally makes the designs for his caskets,over one hundred exclusive styles being shown in his stock. These are entirelyoriginal. He was the first to introduce the Khaki casket, which he put upon themarket in August, 1917. His motor cars are built after his own design and he callsthem the Cunningham Aristocrat. There is only one other like them in the UnitedStates. Mr. Pierson was the first man in Chicago to place a drain in the center ofthe morgue—a plan of build

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