His father was a Chinese immigrant who worked as a laundryman and dry goods merchant.

After the war, he became a dry goods merchant in Halifax.

He was raised and educated in Middlebury and became a dry goods merchant.

Other dry goods merchants occupied the building until 1950.

His father, a dry goods merchant, had immigrated to America from Hungary in 1894.

He entered business as a dry goods merchant but later acquired a tannery and began to manufacture leather.

In 1863, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he found work as a dry goods merchant.

His father was a dry goods merchant and his mother a saleslady at their store.

When the area was the center of the city's textile trade in the 19th century, dry goods merchants used the buildings as offices.

Oliver then moved to Woodstock, where he became a dry goods merchant.