The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

THE OLD MIERCHA.V'TS

he resided some years. Joseph Kernochan resided with
him until 1825, when the latter went to housekeeping
at 34 Warren street, but af.er two years removed to
No. 85 Chamber street, where he resided until 1839,
when he moved up town to Ninth street, corner of
second avenue.
In 1825, Henry Parish and Mr. Holbrook both retired from thle New York house of Parish, Holbrook &
Co., and Daniel Parish came on from Charleston to New
York, bringing his family with him, and formed a new
firm under the style of Kernochan, Parish & Co. Daniel hired the hlouse No. 12 Beekman street, and he lived
there until 1831, when lie and his brother Henry bought
the lots Nos. 49 and 51 Barclay street, and put up two
houses side by side, that were deemed in their day as palaces. They stood on the north side of Barclay street,
close by College Place. Our citizens would go out of
their way, especially on Sundays, to look at them, then
in a fashionable quarter of the town. The Parishes
saw their hapipy days in those houses. They lived
merry while they occupied them. When in after years,
1847, Henry moved up to a palace in Union square,
corner of Seventeenth street, Daniel resided in his old
house No. 51, years afterwards or until 1854, when he
moved to Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street. It is said
that when Henry bade farewell to No. 49 Barclay, he
visited every room, like a child, and the last words he
said as he was leaving it, were: " Old house, good-by,
I shall never know so much happiness anywhere else."
In 1827, Henry Parish again became a partner of
the firm of Kernochan, Parish & Co., and so continued
until 1833, when Mr. Kernochan went out of business.
He had been a partner of the Parishes from 1819, and
had in that time acquired a large fortune, and stood