FIFTY YEARS
with the Revere Copper Co.
A PAPER READ AT THE STOCKHOLDERS'
MEETING HELD
ON MONDAY 24 MARCH 1890 BY
ITS TREASURER S. T. SNOW
BOSTON
PRESS OF SAMUEL USHER,
BOSTON, MASS.
Printed by request, and for use, of the Stockholders.
I
A Personal Word by way of introduction. My first appearance in theRevere Copper Company's office, then at No. 22 Union Street,[1] was onMonday morning, March 23, 1840. Saturday night last, therefore,completed the full period of fifty uninterrupted years of service.
In the nature of things it cannot be expected that this record will berepeated by me, nor can any one else duplicate it for a long time tocome. There is no other stockholder whose certificate bears an earlierdate than 1881, and[Pg 6] no one in the office has a retrospect of twentyyears even.[2]
The Company was incorporated and organized in the year 1828. In 1840,all the original corporators, or associates, were living. Otherstockholders from their families were afterwards added, but they all,the first associates and the others subsequently admitted, have passedaway. It follows that, at the present time, there is no other one livingwho has been brought into daily business intercourse with the members ofthis Company from its very beginning.
It would therefore seem to be a very proper and fitting thing for me, onso interesting an occasion, to review somewhat the personnel of theCompany.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The office and storehouse were removed June 1, 1843, to No.97 State Street; again July 1, 1867, to No. 47 Kilby Street; and stillagain, November 1, 1888, to No. 369 Atlantic Avenue, where they now are.In the conflagration of November 9 and 10, 1872, the building Nos. 45and 47 Kilby Street was destroyed. During its reconstruction, just oneyear, building No. 113 (later 117) State Street, corner of Broad Street,was occupied.
[2] Mr. James Edmiston Brown came into the office February 8,1873. He deserves special mention here for his faithful, efficient, andvaluable services.
II.
Preliminary thereto, however, a brief historical statement should bemade of the beginnings of the enterprises to which the Companysucceeded.
In January, 1801, Colonel Paul Revere...