29y
Son of Thomas and Harriet [Erringer] Brown
1534 N. 15th Street, 20th Ward
1868-11-17; Paper: Public Ledger
"BROWN - On the morning of the 16th instant, NATHAN S. BROWN, son of Thomas Brown, aged 29 years.
The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 1534 North Fifteenth street, on Thursday, the 19th instant, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Mount Vernon Cemetery."
Nathan Brown was John Wanamaker's brother-in-law and also his business partner which was originally called Wanamaker and Brown.
Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 1918 in a long article about John Wanamaker's 80th birthday.
...
On April 11, 1861, the day that Fort Sumpter was bombarded, he opened a small store in Philadelphia at Sixth and Market streets, with Nathan Brown, whose sister he married. The outlook was not pleasing. The first day's sales were $24.07 and the total sales of the year less than $25000. He worked eight years at this business without a day's real rest. It developed into the largest retail clothing establishment of its time in America."
At six-thirty in the morning, partners John Wanamaker and Nathan Brown opened a mens' and boys' clothing store on the ground floor of a building known as "Oak Hall" on the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. This 30 foot by eighty foot shop was to evolve into the giant Wanamaker Stores empire. The expanded store moved from Oak Hall to the new "Grand Depot" at Thirteenth and Market on May 6, 1876. There the whole block was secured and in June 1910 a completely new two-million square foot store opened, facing Chestnut Street. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Joseph Herbert Appel, John Wanamaker (Firm), Leigh Mitchell Hodges, Golden Book of the Wanamaker Stores: Jubilee Year, 1861-1911 (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1911), 26.
1850 US Census, Philadelphia, Southwark, 4th Ward
MARLIN, Thomas, 60y, born PA, tailor
MARLIN, Ellen, 55y, born DE
BROWN, Isabella, 22y, born PA
BROWN, Nathan, 22y, born PA, blacksmith
MARLIN, Thomas, 16y, born PA, copper plate printer
BROWN, George, 1y, born PA
RICH, Catharine, 20y, born PA
RICH, Catharine, 1y, born PA
RICH, Hiram, 27y, born PA, hotel keeper
Son of Thomas and Harriet [Erringer] Brown
1534 N. 15th Street, 20th Ward
1868-11-17; Paper: Public Ledger
"BROWN - On the morning of the 16th instant, NATHAN S. BROWN, son of Thomas Brown, aged 29 years.
The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 1534 North Fifteenth street, on Thursday, the 19th instant, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Mount Vernon Cemetery."
Nathan Brown was John Wanamaker's brother-in-law and also his business partner which was originally called Wanamaker and Brown.
Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 1918 in a long article about John Wanamaker's 80th birthday.
...
On April 11, 1861, the day that Fort Sumpter was bombarded, he opened a small store in Philadelphia at Sixth and Market streets, with Nathan Brown, whose sister he married. The outlook was not pleasing. The first day's sales were $24.07 and the total sales of the year less than $25000. He worked eight years at this business without a day's real rest. It developed into the largest retail clothing establishment of its time in America."
At six-thirty in the morning, partners John Wanamaker and Nathan Brown opened a mens' and boys' clothing store on the ground floor of a building known as "Oak Hall" on the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. This 30 foot by eighty foot shop was to evolve into the giant Wanamaker Stores empire. The expanded store moved from Oak Hall to the new "Grand Depot" at Thirteenth and Market on May 6, 1876. There the whole block was secured and in June 1910 a completely new two-million square foot store opened, facing Chestnut Street. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Joseph Herbert Appel, John Wanamaker (Firm), Leigh Mitchell Hodges, Golden Book of the Wanamaker Stores: Jubilee Year, 1861-1911 (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1911), 26.
1850 US Census, Philadelphia, Southwark, 4th Ward
MARLIN, Thomas, 60y, born PA, tailor
MARLIN, Ellen, 55y, born DE
BROWN, Isabella, 22y, born PA
BROWN, Nathan, 22y, born PA, blacksmith
MARLIN, Thomas, 16y, born PA, copper plate printer
BROWN, George, 1y, born PA
RICH, Catharine, 20y, born PA
RICH, Catharine, 1y, born PA
RICH, Hiram, 27y, born PA, hotel keeper
29y
Son of Thomas and Harriet [Erringer] Brown
1534 N. 15th Street, 20th Ward
1868-11-17; Paper: Public Ledger
"BROWN - On the morning of the 16th instant, NATHAN S. BROWN, son of Thomas Brown, aged 29 years.
The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 1534 North Fifteenth street, on Thursday, the 19th instant, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Mount Vernon Cemetery."
Nathan Brown was John Wanamaker's brother-in-law and also his business partner which was originally called Wanamaker and Brown.
Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 1918 in a long article about John Wanamaker's 80th birthday.
...
On April 11, 1861, the day that Fort Sumpter was bombarded, he opened a small store in Philadelphia at Sixth and Market streets, with Nathan Brown, whose sister he married. The outlook was not pleasing. The first day's sales were $24.07 and the total sales of the year less than $25000. He worked eight years at this business without a day's real rest. It developed into the largest retail clothing establishment of its time in America."
At six-thirty in the morning, partners John Wanamaker and Nathan Brown opened a mens' and boys' clothing store on the ground floor of a building known as "Oak Hall" on the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. This 30 foot by eighty foot shop was to evolve into the giant Wanamaker Stores empire. The expanded store moved from Oak Hall to the new "Grand Depot" at Thirteenth and Market on May 6, 1876. There the whole block was secured and in June 1910 a completely new two-million square foot store opened, facing Chestnut Street. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Joseph Herbert Appel, John Wanamaker (Firm), Leigh Mitchell Hodges, Golden Book of the Wanamaker Stores: Jubilee Year, 1861-1911 (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1911), 26.
1850 US Census, Philadelphia, Southwark, 4th Ward
MARLIN, Thomas, 60y, born PA, tailor
MARLIN, Ellen, 55y, born DE
BROWN, Isabella, 22y, born PA
BROWN, Nathan, 22y, born PA, blacksmith
MARLIN, Thomas, 16y, born PA, copper plate printer
BROWN, George, 1y, born PA
RICH, Catharine, 20y, born PA
RICH, Catharine, 1y, born PA
RICH, Hiram, 27y, born PA, hotel keeper
Son of Thomas and Harriet [Erringer] Brown
1534 N. 15th Street, 20th Ward
1868-11-17; Paper: Public Ledger
"BROWN - On the morning of the 16th instant, NATHAN S. BROWN, son of Thomas Brown, aged 29 years.
The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 1534 North Fifteenth street, on Thursday, the 19th instant, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Mount Vernon Cemetery."
Nathan Brown was John Wanamaker's brother-in-law and also his business partner which was originally called Wanamaker and Brown.
Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 1918 in a long article about John Wanamaker's 80th birthday.
...
On April 11, 1861, the day that Fort Sumpter was bombarded, he opened a small store in Philadelphia at Sixth and Market streets, with Nathan Brown, whose sister he married. The outlook was not pleasing. The first day's sales were $24.07 and the total sales of the year less than $25000. He worked eight years at this business without a day's real rest. It developed into the largest retail clothing establishment of its time in America."
At six-thirty in the morning, partners John Wanamaker and Nathan Brown opened a mens' and boys' clothing store on the ground floor of a building known as "Oak Hall" on the corner of Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. This 30 foot by eighty foot shop was to evolve into the giant Wanamaker Stores empire. The expanded store moved from Oak Hall to the new "Grand Depot" at Thirteenth and Market on May 6, 1876. There the whole block was secured and in June 1910 a completely new two-million square foot store opened, facing Chestnut Street. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Joseph Herbert Appel, John Wanamaker (Firm), Leigh Mitchell Hodges, Golden Book of the Wanamaker Stores: Jubilee Year, 1861-1911 (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1911), 26.
1850 US Census, Philadelphia, Southwark, 4th Ward
MARLIN, Thomas, 60y, born PA, tailor
MARLIN, Ellen, 55y, born DE
BROWN, Isabella, 22y, born PA
BROWN, Nathan, 22y, born PA, blacksmith
MARLIN, Thomas, 16y, born PA, copper plate printer
BROWN, George, 1y, born PA
RICH, Catharine, 20y, born PA
RICH, Catharine, 1y, born PA
RICH, Hiram, 27y, born PA, hotel keeper
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