LEADING  MANUFACTURERS  AND  MERCHANTS  CITY  OF  BROOKLYN


SHIRER & VAN STEENBERGH

Ranges, Heaters, Furnaces
Manufacturers of and Dealers in Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware, Metal Roofing
No. 9 Gates Avenue, junction of Fulton Street.-

This house has a creditable history, having been founded in 1860 by Messrs. 
J. Shirer & Co., who were succeeded by the present firm in 1870, and conducted 
during all this the with marked ability and success. The first location was 
at the corner of Oxford Street and Fulton Avenue, removing to the present 
location in 1867. 

Here the firm occupy a fine, large store, 20x45 feet in dimensions, and 
give employment to from eight to ten hands. Here can be found everything 
needed in the line of stoves, furnaces, and ranges, together with a fine 
assortment of tin and sheet-iron ware and kitchen furnishing goods. 

The firm are prepared to make every description of tin and sheet-iron work 
to order at the shortest notice; also, do all kinds of metal roofing in the 
most thorough manner, and attend to jobbing with the utmost promptness. The 
trade is large and active through out the city and Long Island. 

The members of the firm are Messrs. J. Shirer and C. Van Steenbergh, the 
former a native of Ohio and the latter of New York City. 


With Special Thanks to: Cathy Harrison Speciale
Transcribed exclusively for the Brooklyn Genealogical Information Pages: Nancy E Lutz

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