1875 Kenny's Illustrated Cincinnati
Howell Gano & Company
contributed May 2008 by Joan Asche from her former website
Howell Gano & Co.’s
old-established Wholesale Hardware House is situated at No. 138 Walnut
Street, and is one of the principal buildings on the street. The
business was established in the year 1844.
The building has a front of twenty-five feet, is one hundred and twenty-five feet, and, including the basement, is seven stories high.
The Hardware trade, and especially the wholesale department of it, is possibly the most difficult business to define. It seems to have no limit to the number or article embraced under the term “Hardware.”
Among the leading articles, or rather lines of articles, the firm deal in the following – namely Burden’s Horseshoes, Globe, Putman, and Ausable Horse Nails, W. & S. Butcher’s and Western Files, and Rasps, Tale Locks and Bronzed Hardware, Norwalk Locks, American Screw Company’s Screws, O. Ames & Son’s Shovels and Spades, Joseph Rodgers & Sons and George Wosternholm & Sons’s Cutlery.
The trade of the house extends over the States of Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas.
The members of the firm are Howell Gano, Christopher T. Adams, and Jacob W. Gano.
From: "Kenny's 1875 Illustrated Cincinnati," pages 204 - 205
The building has a front of twenty-five feet, is one hundred and twenty-five feet, and, including the basement, is seven stories high.
The Hardware trade, and especially the wholesale department of it, is possibly the most difficult business to define. It seems to have no limit to the number or article embraced under the term “Hardware.”
Among the leading articles, or rather lines of articles, the firm deal in the following – namely Burden’s Horseshoes, Globe, Putman, and Ausable Horse Nails, W. & S. Butcher’s and Western Files, and Rasps, Tale Locks and Bronzed Hardware, Norwalk Locks, American Screw Company’s Screws, O. Ames & Son’s Shovels and Spades, Joseph Rodgers & Sons and George Wosternholm & Sons’s Cutlery.
The trade of the house extends over the States of Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas.
The members of the firm are Howell Gano, Christopher T. Adams, and Jacob W. Gano.
From: "Kenny's 1875 Illustrated Cincinnati," pages 204 - 205