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George D. Trawin |
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GEORGE D. TRAWIN, wholesale and retail dealer in dry goods, notions, etc., 904 and 906 Water Street, Meadville. As one of the most prominent industries and praiseworthy enterprises that have tended to develop the mercantile interests of Meadville, more than a passing reference is due to the mammoth establishment of George D. Trawin, who may safely be said to be the best representative of the rising trade of the city. Mr. Trawin is a native of New Jersey, and previous to coming to Meadville was engaged in the dry goods business in Cleveland, Ohio, Cincinnati and other points. He has been connected with the business interests of this place for the past six years, and deservedly enjoys the confidence of the purchasing public of the city and surrounding country, as his experience, dating back some twenty years, and extensive facilities in every respect, good business qualities, together with personal attention to every department of his establishment, and discretion in the purchasing of goods, eminently qualify him to transact his flourishing business with satisfaction to all classes of the community; and it is a well known fact that the establishment is not operated in the interests of any one special class to the exclusion of any other class, but all alike are courteously attended by a staff of twenty to twenty-five courteous assistants. The house was originally established by W. H. Andrews in the year 1858, but has been under the proprietorship of Mr. Trawin since 1881, and since that date the business has attained its highest usefulness and secured its greatest patronage. The building occupied is 46 feet in width by 130 feet in depth, and is in all respects a central and noticeably flourishing institution. History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 771-772 . |
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