GRAPHIC 1882 BILLHEAD PORTLAND MAINE, EMERY WATERHOUSE (HARDWARE) CO. for Sale

GRAPHIC 1882 BILLHEAD PORTLAND MAINE, EMERY WATERHOUSE (HARDWARE) CO. For Sale

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GRAPHIC 1882 BILLHEAD PORTLAND MAINE, EMERY WATERHOUSE (HARDWARE) CO.:
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GRAPHIC 1882 BILLHEAD PORTLAND MAINE, EMERY WATERHOUSE (HARDWARE) CO. ORIGINAL.

MANUFACTURERS OF SHOVELS, SPADES AND HOES
ESTABLISHED 1842, BOUGHT BY ACE IN 2014
ADDRESS: EMERY BLOCK, CORNER MIDDLE AND PEARLS STS
GREAT PIECE OF EARLY MAINE HISTORY

The study opens with a portrait of Daniel Freeman Emery(1801-

1891) who founded the company in partnership with Joshua W.Water[1]house. Readers aregiven the history of the founders and the bustling port, complete withillustrations, maps, documents, bill-heads, and fam[1]ilyand company photographs.

The company was one of many hardware firms in the city. By chance,the Middle Street store survived the Great Fire of 1866, although buildings oneither side were reduced to ash. Still, the firm moved to new, larger quarters,and in 1875 historian Edward Elwell called Emery[1]Waterhouse“the largest in the Hardware line in this city or the State.”

The Emery family ran the business until the death of Daniel,Jr., in 1929 — the year of the stock market crash. In 1930 the Emery Blockburned and was rebuilt. Then in 1933 the new president of the firm, Charles D. Alexander,shot himself and the company was found to be close to insol[1]vency. At this pointCharles L. Hildreth (1902-1976), son of a leading lo[1]calfamily and graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Law School, was talked intobuying the firm. For Hildreth it was a way to stay in Maine near his family andturn a fading company around.

SEEMY STORE: VINTAGE HARDWARE STORE LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE.