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business tact, indomitable energy, unswerving integrity and a strict regard to probity, these qualifications are peculiarly essential to the dealer in wines and liquors. These essential requisites are home harmoniously blended in the person of Mr. A. A. Milligan, wholesale dealer in wines, liquors, cigars, tobacco, etc. his place of business is located on the corner of Main and High streets, in this city. Mr. Milligan is a native of Ireland that came to the United States when quite young, landing at Baltimore in 1848. He came direct to the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was for many years prominently identified with the wholesale liquor trade in where he made hosts of good friends, in both business and social circles. In 1878 he established himself in the same line in the city, where he now occupies two rooms with an aggregate for space of 20 x 80' in dimensions and carries a full undesirable stock of the choicest and purest brands of foreign and American wines, liquors, cordials, etc., bourbon and rye whiskeys, bottled ale, beer and porter, cigars, tobacco, etc., enjoy unsurpassed facilities for supplying the trade. The average valuation of stock carried is not less than $15,000 and the annual transactions of this representative house, which is the leading one in this line in Central Indiana, will exceed $45,000, the trade extending throughout this and adjoining counties. Mr. Milligan's well known probity and uniform system of fair and honorable dealing insures absolute safety to his patrons, who may implicitly rely upon all statements made by him or his employees as to quality, purity and value. Mr. Milligan transacts and exclusively cash business, thus protecting his patrons against possibility of being assessed to make up for bad debts. |
A Review of their Manufacturing, Mercantile and General Business Interests, Advantageous Location, &c Including a Brief Historical and Statistical Sketch of Their Rise and Progress Resources and Industries of Indiana, Part V |