Employers of the Civil War Orphans

Financial - banks, trustees, insurance, stockbrokers.

Manufacturing - straw hats, shoes, sewing machines, cotton and woolen mills, candy, machine silk, iron foundry, brushes, machinists, paper boxes, glass works, Goodyear rubber, fire grates and kitchen ranges (cast iron), cigars, ink, sugar refiners, jewelry and spectacles, print, watchmakers.

Publishing, printing, and stationers.

Legal companies.

Retail - merchants, dry goods, silverware, jewelry, silver plater, commission merchants, tailor, leather and shoe findings, clothiers, music, druggist, grocers, book store, photographers, oil merchant, hardware, real estate, ship chandlers, art furniture, notions, trimmings, iron merchants, artist’s materials, lumber, florist, photographic materials, musical instruments, house supplies, plumber.

Railroads.

Harbor Master.

Others - sugar brokers, grain dealers, architect, cloth house, consulting chemist, painters, dentist, mining company, Grand Army of the Republic, builder, vocal arts, house of correction, zoological garden, musical academy, laundry, consulting engineer, telegraph supplies, U. S. signal office.

References

1. Annual Reports from the 1870s and 1880s.

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