BIOGRAPHY: D. M. Wilson; New York co., NY
surname: Wilson, Bruen

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Author: Walter Barrett

D.M. Wilson
Page 139
Old Merchants,  
by Walter Barrett, Clerk  
Thomas R. Knox, 1885 NY

D.M. Wilson was a grocer under the firm of Wilson and Chamberlain; but seeing 
how money was coined in the iron trade, he was determined to embark in it. The 
concern No. 41 Water Street was a large double store and Wilson joined William 
Scott under the firm Scott and Wilson.  The fire of 1835 burned them out and 
the concern dissolved.  The firm of D.M. Wilson was then formed and William 
Bruen, a brother -in-law of Mr. Wilson and a clerk named George T. Cobb were 
taken into the firm. Mr. Cobb is now vice-president of the Importers Bank.

D. M. Wilson, who kept the old Coenties Slip stand, was bought out by T.B. 
Coddington, who had previously been in the tin, copper and sheet iron 
business.  Thomas B. was a nephew of old Samuel Coddington, who kept a 
drinking place in Coenties Slip near Water.  I believe Mr. Coddington is still 
in business.