LEADING  MANUFACTURERS  AND  MERCHANTS  CITY  OF  BROOKLYN

INTRODUCTION
Half Century's Progress of the City of Brooklyn
with a subtitle:
        The City's Leading Manufacturers and Merchants

INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING Co. 
102 Chambers Street, New York
BROOKLYN, 1886. 


A single glance at a page or two of this volume will be sufficient to give 
the general reader a proper conception of its character. More than a mere 
glance, however, will be required to convey to him an idea of its scope and 
the pains that have been taken to cover it fairly and intelligently. 

This work was undertaken with a view to bringing together in convenient and 
permanent form such data relating to the mercantile, manufacturing, and other 
business interests of the beautiful city of Brooklyn, and the men whose brains, 
capital, and energy have been and are the inspiration of them, as are worth 
being preserved. 

Those who are at all familiar with the industrial and commercial enterprises 
of the city will be quick to recognize the names of many men identified not 
alone with them, but who are also conspicuous and leading spirits in everything 
looking to the best and broadest interests of Brooklyn. 

The character of this work is calculated to act as a stimulus and encouragement 
to the many and varied industries whose individual examples it records. Intended 
for general circulation, this will extend to every section of the Union and into 
foreign countries, imparting to the business men into whose hands this volume 
will come a knowledge of the nature, condition, and extent of the commercial 
resources of Brooklyn not attainable from any other single source. 

Brooklyn is the second city in size in the United States, a fact that is of 
itself sufficient to confer upon it the commercial significance and power justly 
attaching to it. Its immediate proximity to the largest city in the Union, and 
the metropolis of the continent, dashes its fame and fortune with a uniqueness 
entirely its own and touches the promise of its future with peculiar interest. 
And that it has a future of surpassing prosperity must be instantly apparent to 
any intelligent person who will take the trouble to even casually turn the 
pages of this work. 

The historical and trade matter here laid before the reader has been carefully 
made up and may be depended upon as accurate. The sketches of the business houses 
herein given have been revised by their proprietors, and the information and data 
they contain have been drawn from authentic sources. They will be found to record 
a thousand and one points of exceeding interest to business men especially, and 
the outlines of many a commercial career will suggest the open secrets of straightly 
gained and well-earned successes. 

Scores of the smaller, as well as the larger and more representative business houses 
of Brooklyn, are reviewed side by side in these pages, for the proprietors of the 
latter, in like manner with those of the former, are influenced by practically the 
same spirit of enterprise and progress, and are contributing their share to the 
general upbuilding of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. 



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

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