BIOGRAPHY: Christian Gunther; New York co., NY
surname: Gunther

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Author: Walter Barrett

CHRISTIAN G. GUNTHER
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"The Old Merchants"
By Walter Barrett, Clerk
Pub:Thomas R. Knox and Co. 1885 NY


When Christian G. Gunther , the head of the fur house of C.G. Gunther and Son, 
arrived in ths city forty-two years ago, he hired out to John G. Wendell, a 
brother-in-law of John Jacob Astor and to Patrick Munn,  From these two he 
acquried his knowledge of furs.  Wendell kept a furrier store at that time at 
No. 77 Maiden Lane and Munn at No. 291 Greenwich Street.