An unnamed merchant entered the employ of Eben D. Jordan in Boston.

The evidence

• “The subject of our sketch received his early education in the common schools of his native town, and after absorbing the knowledge to be gained there attended the Franklin Academy and finished his studies at Phillips Academy, at Andover, graduating in the class of 1843. After completing his education he followed his natural bent for a business life by commencing as a clerk in the wholesale dry goods house of Langley & Abbott, of Boston, and continued with them until 1848, when he entered the employ of Eben D. Jordan, now the great firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34a-biographical-1.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 310 / book p. 808

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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