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Rh R. Evans, and Jonathan Fell, and their sons; Thomas Ridgway and his partner, John Livezey; Alexander Henry, his son, and his nephew of the same name; Robert Wain and his successors; the Becks, the Willings; the Latimers; Jonathan Leedom; Eyre and Massey, whose many ships went all over the world; and Thomas P. Cope, then in the prime of life, whose regular packet lines to Liverpool, started in 1821, preceded all other lines, all of whom gave him a certain inspiration as these and others were all in the same boat with himself, making their fortunes.

Henry Budd, James Steele, Henry Sloan, and Alexander J. Derbyshire were clerks at that time in various concerns. Isaac R. Davis, also, was a clerk with H. C. Corbit, before the drygoods firm of Corbit, Davis & Co., had been formed. The sons of Matthew Carey, pioneer publisher, were already fairly started in the publishing and general bookselling business, in the two firms of Carey & Lea and Carey & Hart. George W. Carpenter, at twenty-three, was still an assistant to Charles Marshall in the drug business, and not till three years later began the independent career