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The Mercantile Library of Cincinnati is a membership library located in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The name of the library refers not to the type of items in its collection but to the forty-five merchants and clerks who founded it on April 18, 1835, as the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association.
1909 Caledonia, Missouri. This circa 1909 country store aims to transport visitors back to a "simpler time" with nostalgic touches like its homemade ice cream, antique gallery, Amish-made fudge ...
His father died when he was two, necessitating the young Jones to curtail his formal education. At age 13, his career began as a store clerk. At 25, Jones had risen to become a partner in the mercantile firm of Benjamin H. Campbell in Galena, Illinois. This success gave Jones the financial means to build one of the grandest homes in Galena.
Today, The Mercantile (which coincidentally opened its doors on Halloween) hosts an annual festival of pumpkin painting, balloon art, and all kinds of delectable sweets.
Jane Austen personally disapproved of marrying for money, [88] but as a realist, she recognized that selfishness, financial interests, and mercantile motives "are not unusual" in her world. [89] As a result, her novels often feature in the background wealthy marriages explicitly described as being solely based on financial considerations.
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Kolb was born on April 15, 1839, in Eufaula, Barbour County. [1] [2] He fought in the American Civil War, commanding a Confederate artillery unit. [2]He lived "the privileged life of a wealthy Black Belt planter and merchant during the 1850s," but "lost more than half his 3,000 acres of land, and his once-prosperous mercantile store failed."
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