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The Old Merchants Of New York City

The Old Merchants Of New York City

Alfred Scoville, Joseph

Paperback

Business General20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354506380
ISBN13: 9789354506383
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before Wall Street was a symbol, it was a waterfront town of ledgers, wharves, and risk. Joseph Alfred Scoville takes you into that world. Here, commerce becomes human history. The Old Merchants of New York City gathers biographical history sketches of the men and families who drove early New York commerce, from colonial era Manhattan into 19th century New York. Scoville traces merchant families and trade through partnerships, rivalries, and civic roles, showing how counting-houses, insurance desks, and auction rooms helped set the Wall Street origins of modern finance. Along the way you glimpse Atlantic shipping and ports, the pulse of the harbour, and the networks that bound New York to the wider world. Scoville writes as a chronicler, preserving names, dates, and reputations that vanish from grand narratives. It reads as American local history with narrative pace, yet works equally well as a New York history reference for browsing, study, or pointing your own family stories in the right direction. Valuable to readers of American business history and to anyone drawn to genealogy and local research, this complete public domain edition preserves a slice of the city that buildings alone cannot keep. For collectors of Americana, it is a window onto a mercantile metropolis, and a companion for tracing the roots of neighbourhoods, firms, and fortunes. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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