Those dates suggest they were added by Austin K. Sheldon, a hardware merchant and expert musician.
Homer was born in Boston in 1836, the middle son of a hardware merchant who, in 1849, went bust in the gold rush.
Members of the Phelps and the Dodge families -- that is, William E. Dodge and Anson Greene Phelps, Dodge's father-in-law -- founded the mining company Phelps Dodge, but Isaac Phelps, a distant relative to Anson, spent his life as a hardware merchant, real estate investor and banker, and amassed an estate estimated at $5 million.
Around 1896, Frances Louise Howland and her husband, Henry, a wholesale hardware merchant, moved into the house, along with an assortment of siblings and Frances's mother.
A young tour guide, Emily Wright, began by explaining that the house had been owned by Seabury Tredwell, a wealthy hardware merchant.
"Everyone knows they were living on our tax money and many people got jobs through political favors," said Kostas, a former hardware merchant whose store went bankrupt in the crisis and who now drives a taxi 12 hours a day to make ends meet.
This time, the merchants' populist intermediary was William Molineux, a smuggler, embezzler, and sometime hardware merchant who became known as "the first leader of dirty matters".
In real-life situations people come from different groups of networks, such as an ethnic group in Nigeria, a Christian group, and a group of hardware merchants.
Roberts was the son of hardware merchant Josephus R. Roberts and Emma Lafferty Roberts.
There is an alley of antique dealers, a street of smithies, one of hardware merchants, and another of wildly assorted miscellany.
As the company announced today on its blog, its new partnership with PayPal allows merchants to accept credit cards without readers or extra hardware: "Merchants can immediately begin accepting credit cards with nothing but a phone … We're excited to be working with PayPal and we hope that this partnership will improve mobile commerce for both consumers and merchants".
