1872
IT HAPPENED
IN…1872
Ulysses S. Grant was
reelected President over Horace Greeley.
When Susan B. Anthony led a group of
women to cast ballots, she was arrested, found guilty, and fined
$100.00.
Yellowstone National Park
was established as the first Federal Forest Reserve.
A Midwest drought halted
trains due to millions of crushed grasshoppers on the tracks.
Panic on the New York Stock
Exchange ruined many people financially and led to the collapse of
several national banks.
Charles E. Hires’ 1913
American Druggist and
Pharmaceutical Record article mentions:
About the year 1872 a state law was passed that all
druggists should undergo an examination and be registered.
I took this examination and was given a certificate of efficiency
to carry on the drug business.
“Carry on,” he certainly did, preparing for the grand
opening of his new store February 26, 1872.
Here’s the flyer he composed announcing the opening and a drawing
showing 602 Spruce Street:
(Figure 1872-01, drug store grand opening announcement, front and back)
(Figure 1872-02; Charles E. Hires’ drug
store, 602 Spruce Street, Philadelphia,
The Story of Hires,
1948)
Note the “QUINTON GLASS WORKS” sign above the second
floor windows. Quinton
Glass Works manufactured window glass in Quinton, New Jersey, and
operated a wholesale location at 602 Spruce Street in Philadelphia.
For many years the Quinton Glass Works was owned by George Hires
Jr., Charles Hires, and John Turner.
George Hires Jr. and Charles Hires were two of Charles Elmer
Hires’ paternal uncles.
Biographical information about uncles George and Charles is included in
the Biographical, Genealogical
and Descriptive History of the First Congressional District of New
Jersey – Volume 1, published in 1900.
Additional information about Quinton Glass Works can be found at
http://salemcountyglass.org/quintonglass.htm.
(Figure 1872-03, business
card, 3.125” x 5.25”)