A century or longer in business

Describes business enterprises founded in Philadelphia, Pa., between 1687 and 1822, still existing in 1922.

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Language:English
Published: [Philadelphia, Pa. : Insurance Company of North America, 1922]
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505 0 0 |t The Francis Perot's Sons Malting Company, 1687 --  |t J.E. Rhoads & Sons, leather, 1702 --  |t Presbyterian Ministers' Fund, 1717 --  |t Franklin Printing Company, 1728 --  |t Christopher Sower Company, publishers, 1738 --  |t Christopher Sower Co., publishers, 1738 --  |t R.A. & J.J. Williams Co., lumber, 1751 --  |t Philadelphia Contributorship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire, 1752 --  |t Wetherill & Brother, white lead, 1762 --  |t John T. Lewis & Bro. Company, white lead, 1772 --  |t Geo. W. Bush & Sons Co., steamboat, 1774 --  |t Job T. Pugh, augers, 1774 --  |t Robert Smith Brewery Corporation, 1774 --  |t Bank of North America, 1781 --  |t Francis Rawle, law firm, 1783  |t --  |t D. Landreth Seed Company, 1784 --  |t Mutual Assurance Company, insurance, 1784 --  |t Episcopal Academy, 1785 --  |t Shryock Brothers, paper, 1790 --  |t Nathan Trotter & Co., tin merchants, 1790 --  |t Insurance Company of North America, 1792 --  |t Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., 1792 --  |t Harrison Bros. & Co., white lead, 1793 --  |t Charles Warner Co., lime, 1794 --  |t William and Harvey Rowland, Inc., springs, 1795 --  |t J. Gibson McIlvain, lumber, 1798 --  |t Norristown herald, 1799 --  |t Brown Bros. & Co., bankers, 1800 --  |t Philadelphia National Bank, 1803 --  |t R.D. Wood & Company, iron merchants, 1803 --  |t Charles Eneu Johnson and Company, inks, 1804 --  |t Edward W. Woolman, milk, 1804 --  |t Samuel T. Freman and Co., auctioneers, 1805 --  |t C. Bockius Company, glazed kid, 1807 --  |t George D. Wetherill & Co., Inc., white lead, 1807 --  |t George C. Child & Son, jewelers, 1810 --  |t Frishmuth Brothers & Company, tobacco, 1810 --  |t William S. Hansell & Sons, harness, 1810 --  |t N. & G. Taylor Company, tin plate, 1810 --  |t Edwin K. Tryon Co., firearms, 1811 --  |t Pennsylvania Company for Insurances of Lives and Granting Annuities, 1812 --  |t Smith & Furbish Machine Co., woolen machinery, 1812 --  |t Wm. Whitaker & Sons, cotton goods, 1813 --  |t National Bank of Germantown, 1814 --  |t Horace T. Potts & Co., iron and steel, 1815 --  |t C. Schrack & Co., varnish and colors, 1815 --  |t Adam Pfromm & Company, wholesale drugs, 1815 --  |t William H. Horstman Co., uniforms, etc., 1816 --  |t Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, 1816 --  |t William Barnett & Sons, starch, 1817 --  |t Fire Association of Philadelphia, 1817 --  |t Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co., chemists, 1818 --  |t Riggs & Brother, jewelers, 1818 --  |t H.W. Butterworth & Sons Co., finishing machinery, 1820 --  |t Hastings and Company, gold leaf, 1820 --  |t William F. Murphy's Sons Co., stationers, 1820 --  |t Horrocks & Brother, dye works, 1821 --  |t Douredoure and Douredoure, merchants, 1822 --  |t Bullock Brothers, wool, 1822. 
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