BIOGRAPHY: Thomas Howell Smith; New York co., NY
surname: Smith

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Author: Walter Barrett

THOMAS HOWELL SMITH
Old Merchants, 1885
Page 51

I do not know the precise day when Thomas Howell Smith started business in New 
York City but it must have been before 1800.  His wholesale and retail grovery 
store was at 195 Front Street in 1801.  The next year  he took in a son-in-
law, George W. Bruen, as a partner.  The latter was a son of Matthew Bruen, of 
the firm of M. & J. Bruen, merchants at 177 Broadway, sixty years ago.  From 
grocers they rose to be the greatest tea importers in the United States.

I suppose in the thirty years that followed, Thomas H. Smith was one of the 
greatest of the old school merchants.