A man engaged in tailoring opened a tailoring establishment at 175 Broadway, New York, in connection with Joseph Hoxie, under the firm name of Manchester & Hoxie.

The evidence

• “I., and served an apprenticeship at tailoring; in the fall of 1816, he went to New Bedford, Mass., and opened a tailoring establishment on his own account; then worked as journeyman in New York City a short time, and on July 20, 1817, went to Utica, N. Y., where, in the winter of 1818, he engaged in the tailoring business, which he carried on for forty years with good success; in 1834, he also opened a tailoring establishment at 175 Broadway, in connection with Joseph Hoxie, under the firm name of Manchester & Hoxie. and shortly thereafter bought out the interest of Mr. Hoxie, and removed to 187 Broadway, at the head of John street; he continued there for six months, when he removed to what was then known as store No. 2, under the Astor House, which he carried on for four years; in 1840, he went back to Utiea to look at the interest of the business at that place ; from Utica he removed to Beloit, where he opened a general store in connection with Mr.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 753

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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