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Thomas Geoffry LucasAfter the war, in 1919, Lucas joined Henry Vaughan Lanchester to form the partnership of Lanchester & Lucas.
Thomas Catto, 1st Baron CattoIn 1898 he became secretary to W. H. Stuart, managing partner of F. A. Mattievich & Co, based in Batumi and Baku, Russia.
James G. BlaineBaker soon sold his share to John L. Stevens, a local minister, in 1854.
Nigel HartIn the summer of 2000 Hart left Putnam and founded his own firm ReachCapital Management, located in Harrison, New York and has continued a strategy of focusing on stock picking both long and short.
Digby DenhamDenham moved to Sydney in 1885 to form a partnership in John Melliday & Co.
Nels JohnsonWhile still in Milwaukee in 1871 Johnson formed a partnership with John Bowie.
Gaston ChevroletIn 1916, the year after older brother Louis left the Chevrolet car company, Gaston Chevrolet became a partner with Louis and Arthur in the new Frontenac Motor Corporation.
John Laird (shipbuilder)In 1860, John Laird was joined in partnership by his three sons, William, John and Henry.
John Horgan (Australian politician)From 1890, Horgan practised in partnership with Frederick Moorhead, and later with M. G. Lavan.
Albert Richard PritchardImmediately after graduation he founded Rochester Stamping Company, manufacturers of household metal goods, and was treasurer and manager of the company until 1905.
Clara ViebigShe was married to the Jewish publisher Fritz Theodor Cohn (a partner in the firm of Fontane and Company, later of Egon Fleischel and Company) in 1896.
Samuel Bronfman Bronfman's Distillers Corporation acquired Joseph E. Seagram & Sons of Waterloo, Ontario, from the heirs of Joseph Seagram in 1928.
William Watson (motoring pioneer)A champion cyclist as a young man, he founded W Watson & Co, cycle and motorcar manufacturer, in 1901.
John AkisterHe migrated to Australia in 1963, becoming a draughtsman at A. E. I. Pty Ltd in 1963.
Thomas Graves Meredith1895 also saw him go into partnership with Robert Grant Fisher, under the firm of Meredith & Fisher, until Fisher was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario.
Anthony ReckenzaunWhen John Richard Ravenhill left the partnership in 1875, the business transferred to the works of his former co-partners, Messrs Easton and Anderson of Erith, Kent - engineers, millwright s, and lead pipe manufacturers, and Reckenzaun followed the firm.
William J. McNamaraIn 1905 he formed a real estate partnership with Lorne York that acquired real estate in Camrose, Wetaskiwin, and Edmonton.
Rowland GeorgeHe entered business with E. S. & A. Robinson (later part of Dickinson Robinson Group), a firm of printers and packing manufacturers in Bristol, and in 1929 he was transferred to the London office in Colliers Wood, which gave him the opportunity to start rowing again.
Dankmar AdlerAdler formed a partnership with Edward Burling in 1871 ; they created more than 100 buildings together before ending the partnership.
Fred GardinerIn 1923, Gardiner returned to law practice partnering with Harry Parkinson.
Edward Sibbert In 1929 Sibbert answered an advertisement in a newspaper and was hired by the S. H. Kress company.
Henry WellsWhen Crawford Livingston died in 1847, another of his brothers entered the firm, which became Wells & Company.
Corbett Lyon In 1981 Lyon returned to Australia and established architectural firm Lyon + Lyon with brother Cameron.
Herman KountzeHerman joined his brother Augustus as senior partner, and by 1872 Augustus moved permanently from Omaha to New York to manage affairs directly.
Lewis Nixon (naval architect)He started this business with another former William Cramp and Sons shipbuilder and naval architect, Arthur Leopold Busch, who came from Great Britain to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1892, and was Nixon's superintendent-in-charge at Crescent during this time.
Lim Ah Siangaspx Then he opened a Stulang Steam Saw Mill office in Singapore at 7, Gresham House, Battery Road, Singapore around 1903 with J. M. Cameron was appointed as the manager.
Albert ButzIn 1884, Butz and partner R. J. Mendenhall formed a company called The Butz and Mendenhall Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher Company.
Georgiana Burne-JonesIn 1861, the decorative arts firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.,'' Fine Art Workmen in Painting, Carving, Furniture and the Metals,'' was jointly created by William Morris, Madox Brown, Burne-Jones, Charles Faulkner, Rossetti, P. P. Marshall, and Philip Webb to create and sell medieval-inspired, handcrafted items for the home.
Abbot KinneyIn 1874, Kinney joined the tobacco business run by his older brother, Francis S. Kinney, with offices in New York.
Charles Montague CookeIn 1877 he became business partners with Joshua G. Dickson and Robert Lewers importing lumber and hardware.
Edmund Backhouse (MP) In 1845 he became a junior partner in Jonathan Backhouse & Company, the family bank.
Jacob WeinrothIn 1972, Weinroth established the firm Dr. J. Weinroth & Co.
John Bond TrevorThat venture was dissolved in 1852 when he formed a partnership with James Boorman Colgate.
Solomon NorthupIn the winter of 1842, Ford sold Northup to John M. Tibaut (the name is given as Tibeats in Northup's book), a carpenter who had been working for Ford on the mills as well as at a weaving-house and corn mill on Ford's Bayou Boeuf plantation.
John FairfaxThe partnership was dissolved in September 1853 and Charles, John's eldest son, became a partner.
Richard GoldsbroughIn 1853 he went into partnership with Edward Row and George Kirk under the name of E. Row and Company.
Thomas Greenwood (publisher)In 1875 with W. Hoseason Smith he founded the firm of Smith, Greenwood & Co., afterwards Scott, Greenwood & Co., printers and publishers of trade journals and technical books.
George Newell ArmsbyHe went to work for his father's concern, J. K. Armsby Co., and on 28 December 1898 he married Leonora Chestnut Wood, daughter of Colorado mining entrepreneur Tingley Sylvanus Wood.
James Rutherford (Australian pioneer)The coaching business of Cobb and Co., which had been founded by some visitors from America a few years before, was in 1857 in the hands of Cyrus Hewitt and George Watson, who employed Rutherford to manage the Beechworth line.
George Z. ErwinIn 1878, Tappan was elected to the New York Supreme Court, and William A. Dart returned to Potsdam, N. Y., and resumed practice in partnership with Erwin under the name of Dart & Erwin.
Edward WithyFurness Withy was incorporated as a company in 1891 upon the amalgamation of Christopher Furness' business in West Hartlepool and London with Edward Withy's shipbuilding yard in Hartlepool.
Charles M. RobinsonIn 1889, Robinson formed the architectural firm of Smith & Robinson with G. T. Smith in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Ben BarronBen settled in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, where his uncle Zelig Behrmann had migrated some years before and was one of Moncks Corner's first merchants after it had been incorporated in 1909.
William T. YoungWilliam Young continued to manage the peanut butter manufacturing operation for Procter & Gamble until 1957, at which time he founded W. T. Young Storage, Inc.
Edward Baldwin WhitneyIn 1883, with General Henry Lawrence Burnett, who was a member of that firm, he formed the firm of Burnett & Whitney.
Freddie GrubbIn 1914, after he retired from racing, he established a bicycle manufacturing business (F. H. Grubb) in Brixton, London.
John Alexander FladgateHe was the sole partner of Taylor, Fladgate & Co., after Joseph Taylor's death in 1837.
Horace Everett Hooper He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1893 to join the firm of James Clark, publishers of cheap editions.
Hiram B. ClawsonIn 1865 Clawson bought out William H. Hooper to become partners with Horace S. Eldredge.
Walter Randolph CarpenterIn 1899, he resigned from Burns Philp, bought three luggers and established a family pearl - shelling business, J. B. Carpenter & Sons Ltd., of which he was managing director.
J. P. MorganIn 1858 he moved to New York City to join the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Company, the American representatives of George Peabody and Company.
David YuileThe Yuile brothers set to work restoring the St Johns Glass Company of Saint-Jean to operation, and it resumed manufacturing in April 1879 under the name Excelsior Glass Company.
Elmer Winter Aaron Scheinfeld, owner of a Chicago law firm, hired Winter in 1936 and Winter moved back to Milwaukee when the firm opened a new branch there.
Boyd Dunlop MoreheadIn 1873 he founded the well-known firm of B. D. Morehead and Company, general merchants, and stock and station agents, which afterwards became Moreheads Limited.
Antoine Ephrem CartierApproximately 1878 Antoine was a partner with D. L. Filer in the large lumbering firm Cartier & Filer.
Austin Eldon KnowltonThe brothers separated their business about 1923, at which time'' CL'' formed his new company, C. L. Knowlton and Sons, Contractors, with sons Clarence Ernest ('' CE'') and Austin Eldon ('' AE'').
Campbell W. AdamsIn 1872, he became an assistant to William H. Christian, City Surveyor of Utica, and in the following year when Christian's term expired, they formed a partnership and carried on a general surveying business.
William WalmsleyWilliam Walmsley (born 1892) was with William Lyons a co-founder of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which later became the Jaguar car company.
George SteersIn 1850 he formed the firm George & James R. Steers with his brother.
Sam SloanIn 1970, he established Samuel H. Sloan & Co., a registered broker-dealer primarily trading over-the-counter stocks and bonds.
Allen LaneIn 1919 he joined the publishing company Bodley Head as an apprentice to his uncle and founder of the company John Lane.
Malcolm Afford- Letter to Max Afford from Roger Pethebridge, J. Walter Thompson Company Ltd. 21 September 1954.
Andrew T. Berlin In 1988, Berlin resigned from his job at a Chicago law firm and joined his father in a business venture to purchase Alco Packaging, later renamed Berlin Packaging, which is a North American hybrid packaging supplier of plastic, glass, metal containers and closures.
Albert Chase McArthurWarren McArthur Sr. was a business partner with Edward Everett Boynton in the Hamilton Lantern Company, and it was through McArthur that Boynton commissioned Wright to build the Edward E. Boynton House (1908) in Rochester, New York.
Edmund C. LynchIn 1915, the company changed names from Charles E. Merrill Company to Merrill, Lynch and Company.
Stephen Roxby DoddsIn 1910 he was a founder of the firm of Dodds, Ashcroft & Cook with premises at 24 Fenwick Street, Liverpool.
William Anderson (engineer) In 1864 he joined the firm of Easton & Amos of the Grove, Southwark, and went to live at Erith, where the firm had decided to erect new works.
Alexander Allan StevensonLater that year, the three founded a general printing company, Moore, Owler and Stevenson, and Stevenson remained active in that business until merging it with the Montreal Printing Company in 1879.
Abraham LavertonIn 1852 he bought the mill, while in the same year James Wilson, the Whig Member of Parliament for Westbury and his brother William bought Bitham Mill in the same town.
Charles BebbBebb came permannently to Seattle in 1893 and went to work for the Denny Clay Company, which, with his assistance, began to produce architectural terra cotta.
Frederick DalgetyDalgety soon secured a partnership in the business, and, when his partners left the firm, he formed his own company, Dalgety and Company, in 1846.
Andrew Allan (shipowner) Montreal, 1863 As a clerk, Andrew joined the newly organized shipping firm of Edmonstone, Allan & Co., of which his brother, Hugh, was partner.
Mohammad AeltemeshIn 1984 he established his Law firm under the name and style of Aeltemesh Rein & Co.
Percy BatesAfter his father's death in 1899 he joined the family shipping business, Edward Bates & Sons.
Shelby Cullom DavisHe became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1941 and for many years was the managing partner of the firm bearing his name.
Henry D. CookeIn 1862, Jay Cooke opened a Washington branch of his Jay Cooke & Co. financing firm, making Henry the partner in charge of that office.
John Howard ClarkAfter a short period of work as an assayer, he joined his father as accountant in the firm which, with A. Sidney Clark as proprietor in 1853, became Francis Clark and Sons, hardware importers and shipping agents of Blyth Street.
William Lever, 1st Viscount LeverhulmeLever started work at his father's grocery business in Bolton but as a businessman, he is noted for founding the soap and cleaning product firm, Lever Brothers, with his younger brother James in 1885.
Peter Veitch In 1880, he joined his father in the Exeter branch of the family business, bringing his experiences of French and German nurseries into the company as well as an element of flair from the Chelsea nursery.
John Sulman Sulman went to Sydney in 1885 and the following year became a business partner of C. H. E. Blackmann.
James Glen Sivewright GibsonThe partnership of Gibson and Russell was dissolved in 1899, Russell entering into partnership with Edwin Cooper a few years later and eventually becoming Chief Architect to the Ministry of Health.
Isaac LuckFrom November 1861, Luck was the business partner of Charles Clark and they traded as' Luck and Clark' as land agents and auctioneers from premises on the north-west corner of the intersection of Colombo and Gloucester Streets, with Luck owning that land.
Hermann EcksteinHe attracted the attention of Julius Wernher and Alfred Beit and in 1884 joined them in the partnership of Jules Porgès & Co (later Wernher, Beit & Co).
John BrintonHe joined the family carpet manufacturing firm John Brinton & Co as a partner in 1848.
James Mason (cricketer)He was later a legal partner at Amery-Parkes and Company with four other people, however this partnership in its then structure was dissolved in December 1914 following the retirement of a partner.
Henry Budden The partnership of Kent, Budden and Greenwell was dissolved in 1919 with the departure of Harry Kent.
Albert D. CohenAlbert's five brothers, John, Harry B. Cohen, Morley Cohen, Samuel N. Cohen, and Joseph H. Cohen set up a small retail store and, by 1939, the family had scraped together enough monies to create General Distributors Ltd.
Stanley Johnson (London politician)(The partnership was dissolved in 1928, when Johnson formed a new partnership known as Stanley Johnson & Allen).
Septimus BruttonThe partnership between Brutton and Edward Hobbs, which had premises at 144 High Street, Portsmouth, and The Square, Petersfield, lasted until 1914, when Hobbs retired from the firm.
Grace MetaliousShe found an agent, M. Jacques Chambrun, who submitted the manuscript to three major publishers before it was accepted at the end of summer 1955 by the small firm of Julian Messner, Inc., owned and operated by Kathryn G. Messner.
Max FisherIn 1933, Fisher joined his father's oil reclamation business in Detroit as a $ 15-a-week salesman before forming his own company.
Ambrose J. MurphyThe firm was dissolved in 1917 after which Murphy continued to work under his own name.
Willy BrandtAfter passing his Abitur in 1932 at Johanneum zu Lübeck, he became an apprentice at the shipbroker and ship's agent F. H. Bertling.
Mary Juliana HardmanHer brother, John Hardman, founded in 1844 Hardman & Co., the ecclesiastical metal works and stained glass works at Birmingham.
John D. Rockefeller In 1866, his brother William Rockefeller Jr. built another refinery in Cleveland and brought John into the partnership.
Alexander Walker IIHe and his brother, George Paterson Walker, took the control of the company after the death of their father Alexander Walker in 1889.
Hart WoodWood left Bliss and Faville to work briefly for another firm known for Beaux-Arts architecture, that of Lewis P. Hobart, before going into partnership with Horace G. Simpson in 1915.
Philip RhodesPhilip Rhodes joined the design firm of Cox & Stevens in 1934.
Fred HobbsThe partnership was dissolved in August 1872, and his brother continued managing the branch in Timaru on his own account.
John Wilkinson (Franklin automobile) After the war, J. Forman Wilkinson had formed a partnership with his brother, Alfred Wilkinson, and established a bank named Wilkinson & Company ; however, it failed on December 9, 1884, when John Wilkinson was an adolescent.