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Bonhams and Butterfield was a large American auction house, founded in 1865 by William Butterfield in San Francisco. It was purchased in 1999 from Bernard Osher by online auctioneer eBay for $260 million. [1] In 2002, it was acquired from eBay by British auctioneer Bonhams and operated under the name Bonhams & Butterfields for about ten years ...
John Butterfield [1] was a descendant of Benjamin Butterfield, who brought his family from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. Benjamin settled in Woburn and settled there as a freeman. [2] John Butterfield's father, Daniel Butterfield, lived at Berne, New York, on the Van Rensselaer Manor, near Albany. In 1822 Daniel married ...
In 2011, Orchard Brands went through a bankruptcy; it exited under the control of debtholders, including American Capital. [15] Orchard Brands had sales of US$ 1.02 billion in 2014. On May 27, 2015, Orchard Brands announced it was being acquired by Capmark Financial to be another business within the Bluestem Brands retail business. [16]
Butterfield Market is an upscale grocery store with its original store located at 1114 Lexington Avenue. On September 2, 2020, it opened its second store located at 1150 Madison Avenue , also in the Upper East Side neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City . [ 1 ]
Delicious Orchards began in 1911 as a small orchard located on a farm road (present day CR 537), connecting Colts Neck with Freehold. The Applegate family, of Freehold Township, bought the orchard in 1922, having three generations of the family run the farm. [1] The orchard eventually grew to 110 acres throughout the years.
A new marijuana dispensary in the old Applebee's building on War Memorial Drive will have its grand opening Wednesday in Peoria. The dispensary at 3929 W. War Memorial Drive, an Ivy Hall brand ...
In 1893, Stark Bro's held their first International New Fruit Fair. Jesse Hiatt, who owned an orchard in Peru, Iowa, sent samples of his fruit to compete in the contest for the best new fruit. Hiatt's apples won the judging, but his nametag could not be found. He submitted samples of the same apple the following year and won again.
Butterfield agreed to tell Corbin and speculators Jay Gould and James Fisk when the government was planning to sell gold, a market that Fisk and Gould wanted to corner. Butterfield accepted $10,000 from Gould, which Butterfield said was "to cover expenses". [8] Butterfield later testified to Congress that it was an unsecured real estate loan. [9]