Identifier: newyorkmetropoli00spra_0 (find matches)
Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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business underthe firm name of Schilling &: Nissen. Here he was in hiselement. He was a merchant. He worked day and night,mastered such details and displayed such ability as salesman,;)urchaser and business manager that in the nature of thingsthe firm name was transposed to Ludwig Nissen & Co.Five years later he bought his old partner out and admitteda new one, the firm name remaining the same. He foughtstep by stc)) against capital and fierce competition, overcameevery difficulty, surmounted every obstacle, became im-mensely popular with the trade, built u;) his business to oneof the first in his line, until finally, as already implied, hewas elected Treasurer of one of the most conservative cor-)iorations in the world. He is a Director of the ShermanBank in New York, and various other business corporations. After having read this too brief sketch, who will saythere is no romance in trade? For the re^t, Mr. Nissen takes a keen interest in jjublic NEW YORK, THE METROJOL/S. 47
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48 NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. affairs. He is a member of the Liederkranz, the (iermanSociety, the (lerman Hosi)ital, lielongs to the high socialclubs—one the famous Hanover Club of Brooklyn, in whichcity, where he lives, he is as popular as he is in New York,where he does business. He is also a member of the Ger-manic of Brooklyn. Ten years ago he married a German-American lady, but has no children. Mr. Nissen is still a young man with, in probability,a brilliant career before him—a career which his talentsentitle him to, undoubtedly. S. A. BROWN. \\hen a business house has been in existence more thanthree-(;uarters of a century in this new world with its rapidchanges and mutations it may without exaggeration be setdown as an old landmark. Such is the wholesale and retaildrug store of S. A. Brown, 28 and 30 Fulton street, whichwas founded in 1806, and is therefore, so to speak, in itsthird generation. The philosophical saying that the fittestsurvive has no truer meaning than when a

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