D R Pershing |
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This house, although inaugurated as recently as 1880, has succeeded by the exercise of an aggressive and liberal business policy in outstripping many of its older contemporaries and placing itself in the front rank as a depot of home supplies. The premises occupied embrace one room 20 x 70', in addition to basement, which is fitted up in metropolitan styling Stock with the best and freshest groceries and provisions, consisting of choice teas, coffee, sugars, syrups, canned goods, notions, queensware, glassware, etc. the facilities enjoyed by this house procuring supplies from producers, importers and the best jobbing houses in the country are not surpassed by any contemporaneous house in the West, while their annual transactions will already bear favorable comparison with any similar house in this section of the state, reaching about $20,000. Mr. Pershing is a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1820. Coming to this day when quite young, he has for a period of 40 years been identified with the literary pursuits, business and progressive industries of the state. He has for about a quarter of a century been associated with literary institutions. He was publisher and proprietor of the Warsaw Democrat in 1850, of the Fulton County Flag 1853-55, Rochester Sentinel, 1857-58, in editor and correspondent of various papers at two January, 1876. He then held the position of political editor of the daily and weekly Fort Wayne Gazette, which position he held up to the time he came to the city, about eight years ago. Was the publisher proprietor of the Muncie Weekly go to end of line, which paper he successfully conducted to July 1877. It should be noted in this connection the Mr. Pershing is the father of the arrangement and location of news and items on the third page, now almost in universal use by the press of the whole country. Active in promoting the material, civil and political welfare of the community, he has chosen and served as Deputy Auditor of Kosciusko County for a period of four years and of Fulton County from 1852 to 1859. |
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 |