LEADING  MANUFACTURERS  AND  MERCHANTS  CITY  OF  BROOKLYN


SPENCER (William) & WALLACE (John W.)

Tin and Sheet-Iron Workers
Manufacturers of and Dealers in Heavy Tinware, etc.
No. 329 Myrtle Avenue.-

A representative and successful house in this line is that of Messrs. 
Spencer & Wallace. The business of this concern was originally founded by the 
Brooklyn Manufacturing Company in 1882, at No. 122 Flatbush Avenue, and in 
the following year they disposed of their interests to the present firm, 
who, on the first of May, 1886, transferred their operations to their present 
quarters on Myrtle Avenue. 

Here they have a neat, well-appointed store, 25 x80 feet in dimensions, 
the basement under it, and a fully equipped workshop in the rear, 25x25 
feet in area. The firm carry an immense stock of tinware, furnaces, stoves, 
ranges, etc. The firm manufactures ice-cream and confectioners' supplies, 
but the great specialty of the house is the manufacture of milk-cans, pails, 
etc., which are produced in all sizes from a pint to forty quarts, and 
larger when desired. 

A staff of fourteen hands is employed in the business. The facilities of the 
house for promptly and satisfactorily filling all orders are unsurpassed by 
any other concern. 

The copartners are Messrs. William Spencer and John W. Wallace. The former, 
who is a native of England, and has resided in the United States since 1869, 
has had twenty-four years' experience in the trade, and the latter, who was born 
at Troy, N. Y., has been connected with the trade for the past seven years. 


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

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