Sentence examples for goods merchant from inspiring English sources

But you're defending your investments like a dry goods merchant".

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

Or Jonas Friedenwald, captain in a Virginia regiment and the son of a German-Jewish dry goods merchant.

Henry's first job was at a dry goods merchant, but he soon moved to the Mutual Life Insurance Company, where his father, Henry Hazen Hyde, was the top agent for the Boston area.

Hastings-on-Hudson - IT was Christmas, either 1906 or 1907 -- she can't quite recall whether she was 2 at the time or 3 -- but Margaret Buchsteiner perfectly remembers the gift she received from her father, a dry goods merchant: a teddy bear, who "sat at a table with a cup of tea in his hand".

These owners were also prosperous, like Wilson Hunt, a Pearl Street dry goods merchant, who built 327 Washington Street (now 41 Harrison Street, reflecting a renaming of that segment of Washington Street), and Ebenezer Miller, a Greenwich Street printer, who built 33 Harrison Street.

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

A private watchman, Peter A. Holmes, while patrolling his beat, had discovered smoke issuing from the five-story building, 25 Merchant Street, which extended through to Pearl Street, and was occupied on the first floor by Comstock & Andrews, fancy dry goods merchants, and the upper part by Henry Barbaud, a French importer.

Friedman was born in Brooklyn, New York, to recent Jewish immigrants Sára Ethel (née Landau) and Jenő Saul Friedman, from Beregszász in Carpathian Ruthenia, Kingdom of Hungary (now Berehove in Ukraine), both of whom worked as dry goods merchants.

I'll give you two farmers and a dry-goods merchant for a fiery abolitionist.

His father was a dry-goods merchant from Bordeaux, his mother a Caribbean-born daughter of French parents.