POLLOCK, S. & CO.

POLLOCK, BISBEE, JEWELL

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/28/2019 at 18:16:46

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

POLLOCK, S. & CO., wholesale grocers; the business was established by S. Pollock, in 1861; in January, 1865, John M. Bisbee and Benjamin B. Jewell, were admitted to partnership. Mr. Pollock came to Iowa in 1843 ; engaged in farming pursuits in Henry Co. until 1845; three years on the Half- Breed Tract, two years in California ; in 1853, came to Keokuk. Mr. P. is from Guernsey Co., Ohio ; Mr. Jewell is a native of Jefferson Co., Ind.; came to Keokuk in 1855 ; Mr. Bisbee was born in Worthington, Hampshire Co., Mass.; came to Keokuk in 1856. Messrs. Pollock & Co. do a business amounting to about $300,000 per annum; their sales are principally in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879