History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.

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petroleum oil. From a great number of very successful. He is now in the wholetests it underwent in my presence I sale liquor trade on Fifth street, north
know that it is absolutely non-explosive. of the square.
It gives such a clear steady light as to LUMBER YARDS.
make it far preferable to the best gas ScHucK & BAKER deal in pine, poplar,
light. ash, oak and wagon lumber, and in sash,
Messrs Lefevre 6& Co. deal in all styles doors, blinds and all other materials used
of lamps and lamp goods. Their store is in building. Their sales amount to
on Adams street, near the town clock. Their yard is
about $80,000 annually. Their yard is
HATS, CAPS AND FURS. near the depot of the T. W. & W. railFRED DIENES, deals in hats, caps, road.
gloves, furs, and repairs furs. opposite VREDENBURG & EILSON sell lumber to
Bradford's book store, Sixth street, near the value of about $65,000 annually.
the Post office. J. S. VREDENBURG is the oldest lumber
J. H. ADAMS, dealer in hats, caps, merchant in the city, having been in the
furs, etc., all of the latest styles. He trade about sixteen years. His annual
is the oldest dealer in this line in the sales are about $90,000. His lumber
city. Store, west side of Capitol Square. yard is near the C. A. & St. L. railroad
C. WOLF & Co. deal in hats, caps, and depot.
fine fur goods. They keep a large stock E. S. JoHNsoN also has a yard near the
of these goods on hand, together with a same depot, making four establishments
choice stock of gentlemen's furnishing whose annual sales foot up between
goods. $250,000 and $300,000.
LIQUOR DEALERS. MARBLE YARDS.
G. A. MAYER, wholesale dealer in im- JOSEPH BAUM is properly a sculptor,
ported wines, liquors, champagnes, Cali- having served a regular apprenticeship in
fornia wines, brandies and Kentucky the ancient city of Cologne. He was in
whiskeys. Monroe street, between Fifth South Carolina when the rebellion broke
and Sixth. out and lost nearly all his property. His
THOMAS BRADY has been engaged in yard is at the corner of Jefferson and
business in Springfield since 1853. For Fourth streets, where he is prepared. to
the last fifteen years he has devoted his do all kinds of Marble and Stone cutattention exclusively to the wholesale ting.
liquor trade, and has built up a very ex- ADAM JOHNSON is an old dealer in
tensive business. He deals in fine wines, Marble. His sales for the last five years
liquors and everything pertaining to this have been about $18,000 annually.
branch of business. Adams street, south MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
side of the square. G. W. CHATTERTON keeps a fine assortH. E. MUELLER, importer and whole- ment of Pianos from the most celebrated
sale dealer in all kinds of liquors. His manufacturers; also, other kinds of Muplace of business is at the Opera House. sical Instruments and Music. He keeps
J. B. FOSSELMAN came to Springfield his musical instruments in connection
in 1850, was six years in the drug busi- with his fine stock of Watches and Jewness and eleven years in the grocery elry; which see.
trade, wholesale and retail. He was the J. M. PEARSON is one of our oldest
first, or among the first, to send out dealers in Music and Musical Instruments,
traveling agents to solicit business, to He has recently removed into new quarbuild up wholesale trade in Springfield, ters, where he always has on hand a full
and in war times found the business supply of Bradbury's Pianos, Organs and