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30 two or three blocks back from the Delaware, north and south of High Street.

It was on Second Street, near Chestnut, that Williamson secured a position as salesman in a store that dealt in much the same class of commodities as those to which he had been accustomed in the country store at Fallsington. Doubtless he had a reference from Gillingham, who probably recommended him to the owner of this particular store. It is known that the Fallsington people kept up their interest in the youth who had gone to Philadelphia, and bought from him when they came to the city. Some often ordered goods from him by mail.

Within a year it came to his knowledge that the owner of a small drygoods store, located on Second Street, above Pine, wanted to sell his stock and fixtures. Isaiah had carefully kept his money and had added a little to it. He was in a position to start in business for himself, and the idea interested him. He went to his cousin, Peter Williamson, a druggist, and a level-headed man, for advice. The cousin told him to buy the store. But Isaiah was already cautious of his money, and he