mercantile house

He then went to work at a mercantile house in Boston.

She began seeking employment and soon started working in a large mercantile house.

However, Fitzsimons had enough education that he could begin work as a clerk in a mercantile house.

The father also arranged for the youth's apprenticeship in at least one mercantile house.

With the old nobility excluded from power, a new class of mercantile house arose.

Mercantile House is active in investment banking, securities trading and fund management.

By 1760 he had immigrated to Philadelphia, and began work as a clerk in a mercantile house.

You must remember my father well; for, as your own was a member of the mercantile house, you knew him from infancy.

His father, first a foreign agent, and afterwards a partner in a mercantile house, died in 1816.

Nelson obtained a position in a mercantile house, and then took up a pastoral life about six miles out of Ipswich.

Prior to its failing, it was considered the leading mercantile house west of the Missouri River.

While waiting for transportation, he accepted a temporary position as an accountant for a mercantile house.

This company became one of the strongest mercantile houses in New York City.

He worked in the city's mercantile houses and also engaged in real estate speculation before pursuing law.

Each of the major mercantile houses and families of the city personally control 100 to 500 (the legal maximum) guards.

Born in New York City, he was orphaned when young and entered a mercantile house.

Meanwhile Robert's younger brother, William, brought up in a mercantile house, had ingratiated himself with his uncle.

Mercantile houses were dragged down into the general ruin, and a dark cloud settled over the Cinnamon isle.

Dei also travelled extensively, drumming up trade for the Florentine mercantile houses.

At the age of ten he went to Charleston to earn a living, and at sixteen had become confidential clerk in a large mercantile house.

It continued until Amos's death, and became the greatest wholesale mercantile house in the United States.

Gwyn had become connected with the mercantile house, Stuart Bros and returned to that business.

Entering a French mercantile house, he led a trading expedition to various parts of the Red Sea.

He began a commercial career in 1804 by entering a foreign mercantile house in London, where he showed business talents of a high order.

He entered a mercantile house in St. Louis, Missouri.