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��two traveling salesmen, and sell about $100,000 per annum. There are five dentists ; two engine- manufacturing establishments, which receive notice in another chapter ; four express agen- cies ; three founders and machinists ; two mar- ble works ; two wholesale grocers, and one wholesale dealer in liquors and tobacco. This business has found a profitable level. Tracy & Aver}' emplo}' three traveling salesmen, and do a large and safe business. Bissman, Sealts & Miller opened a wholesale grocery in Janu- ary', 1878, making, at that time, four regular wholesale groceries in the city. E. Sturges, Sr., dying in September, 1878, that firm closed up its business affairs and went out of business ; shortly afterward, Mr. Hedges dying, Remy, Hedges & Walters also closed up their busi- ness. This left but two wholesale groceries. Col. Hiram Miller dying in 1878, the business was continued b}' Bissman & Sealts. Mr. Frederick Walters, of the old firm of Rem}-, Hedges & Walters, continued the liquor busi- ness, which had been established by the old firm. There are twentj'-five retail gi'oceries; four hardware stores, all retail ; six harness-shops ; two hat and cap stores, one of which, F. Lahm & Co., wholesale, in addition to their retail bus- iness ; eight hotels, which are elsewhere men- tioned ; six insurance agents ; one iron-roof factory ; two leather stores ; six livery stables; eight meat markets ; two mills, which are men- tioned in another chapter ; one wholesale, and

��four retail millinery stores ; five newspapers, elsewhere mentioned ; one normal college, also mentioned in the chapter on schools ; two wholesale notion stores, that of J. E,. Brown & Sons, and Reed, Ink & Lewis — the former do- ing business in Hedges' new block, on the east side of the square, carrying a large stock, and running two wagons with their goods. Reed, Ink & Lewis are on the " Sturges Corner," and have latel}' added a retail store in the same block.

There are three photograph galleries ; nine- teen physicians ; two planing-mills — McVay & Allison and the Mansfield Lumber and Building Company ; ten restaurants ; thirty-six saloons ; one shirt factory, which is kept by J. H. Knisely, in the Krause Block. This busi- ness was established in 1876, by its present owner and proprietor, and has become firmly and permanently established. There are also two soap, and two suspender factories, else- where noticed ; six stove stores ; five tailor- shops ; one tanj'ard ; one toy store ; one trunk factory ; six jewelry stores ; one woolen- mill, elsewhere noticed ; one wire-works, and a host of lesser industries, employing from one to twenty hands each. The directory also gives the names of ninety-one streets.

Much valuable and interesting history, mostly relating to the citizens of Mansfield and vicin- it}-, will be found elsewhere, in the biographical department.

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