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Excerpt from Milwaukee Illustrated: Its Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing Interests, and Advantages as a Residence City This is not a corporation, but a copartnership, consisting principally of the members of the Allen family. The founder of the house, Rufus Allen, established in the canning business in Central New York in 1809, and the business has not been interrupted by a single day up to the present time. Hence it is probably the oldest continuous tanning firm in the United States. Bark becoming exhausted in Central New York, the business was removed to Wisconsin in 1846. to take advantage of the bountiful hemlock forests existing in this State. This firm ranks among the largest tanners in the World, unequaled but by one firm in all Europe. They manufacture sole, upper and harness leather, and have the capacity to turn out over 200,000 sides of leather per annum. They manufacture for and ship to European markets, as well as to the larger markets of this country. Their business is more connected with the Eastern States and Europe, than with the Western States. Their leather stand high in the markets of the world, from the skill in the manufacture. The firm obtained three of the highest premiums at the Vienna Exposition, over other American and all European competitors. Milwaukee contains some twenty-five tanneries, and is probably the largest leather producing centre in this country. Many of these tanneries are of large capacity, but the largest are those of the Wisconsin Leather Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.