Identifier: crockeryglassjou74newy (find matches)
Title: Crockery & glass journal
Year: 1875 (1870s)
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Subjects: Pottery Glass Glassware
Publisher: New York : G. Whittemore & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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on earth can prevent our car-rying out our programme of reprisal. 225 EIGHTY-FOUR, AND STILL GOING STRONG. ONE of the most interesting characters in the crock-ery and glass trade is B. B. Higgins, of Higgins& Seiter. Slightly built, with a full head of hairwithout any gray in it, his beard being only slightlytinged, he does not look a day over seventy, althoughhe is nearly eighty-four years of age, and he is at thestore every day keeping in touch with all that isgoing on. His courteous manner and kindly disposi- the money he had to invest was $15.5, the rest beingpaid by notes, which he met promptly when due. Afew years afterwards he Eold out his share and boughta drug store in Dixon, 111., which he ran successfullyfor thirty years. During this time he developed apassion for cattle, and established the famous RockRiver Breeding Farm. Mr. Higgins first wife died in 1865, when hisson, Arthur S., was three years old. In 1881 he mar-ried again and in 1884 returned to New York, leaving
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B B. HIGGINS IN HIS LIBRARY. tion have endeared him to every employee in theestablishment, and the patrons of the store regardhim with affection. He is a thorough business man,clear-headed and far-seeing, and takes a delight inthe business. He lives with his son in a beautifulhome at Yonkers, where he is surrounded with everycomfort money can procure, but prefers to engage inmercantile affairs rather than spend his time in themore quiet pursuits to which his age entitles him. Mr. Higgins was born in Perry, N. Y., in 1828.He received a common school education, and whenhe was nineteen years old bought a half interest in adrug store in which his brother was a partner. All his son in charge of the business. Shortly afterwardsArthur S. came to the city to visit his father, and de-termined to remain and go into business here. Sell-ing his drug business, he obtained employment withthe Ovingtons in Brooklyn, and in a remarkablyshort time felt competent to engage in the businesson his own acco

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