1875 Kenny's Illustrated Cincinnati
Snider
& Hoole’s
contributed May 2008 by Joan Asche from her former website
Snider and Hooles’s establishment at
No. 101 Walnut Street, is one of the finest buildings on that great
thoroughfare. It has a frontage of twenty-five feet, a depth of
one hundred feet, and is including the basement, six stories
high. The firm are the most extensive dealers in Book Binders’
Materials and Machinery in the Western States. The business was
established in the year 1808. The interior of the establishment
is fitted up in a very superior manner, every thing is arranged to
facilitate the rapid transaction of a large business.
The firm deal in such a multiplicity of articles that no enumeration can be indulged in. A few may be specified—namely, Russia Leather, English and American Book Cloths, Goat Moroccos and Imitations, English Calf-skins, Straw, Tar, and Trunk Boards, Book-binders and Paper-box Makers’ Stock Tools and Machinery of every description. The firm has branch-houses in Chicago and St. Louis, and its trade extends over every section of the country except the New England States. The members of the firm are, Louis Snider of Hamilton Ohio and Edwin Hoole of Cincinnati.
Excerpt from: 1875 Kenny’s Illustrated Cincinnati; pages 202-203
The firm deal in such a multiplicity of articles that no enumeration can be indulged in. A few may be specified—namely, Russia Leather, English and American Book Cloths, Goat Moroccos and Imitations, English Calf-skins, Straw, Tar, and Trunk Boards, Book-binders and Paper-box Makers’ Stock Tools and Machinery of every description. The firm has branch-houses in Chicago and St. Louis, and its trade extends over every section of the country except the New England States. The members of the firm are, Louis Snider of Hamilton Ohio and Edwin Hoole of Cincinnati.
Excerpt from: 1875 Kenny’s Illustrated Cincinnati; pages 202-203