Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

SPRINGFIELD. 1636-1886. 391
Daniel Lombard was still postmaster. The bookstores included
G. W. Calender (opposite Court square), Robert Russell and T.
Dickman (opposite Springfield Exchange hotel). E. Edwards and
Sterns & Hunt were druggists ; and the prominent dry-goods mer-
chants were John W. Dwight (successor of Dwight & Colton), Bangs,
Stikes, & Co., D. C. Brewer, Howard & Lathrop, Bliss & Morris,
Bontecou & Hunt, Ames & Reynolds, Solomon Warriner & Son,
James Brewer, Gilbert A. Smith, and T. A. Merrick. H. Brewer
sold fish, cheese, etc. ; Henry
& Co., curriers ;
Adams was watchmaker ; Rand, Bates,
Blake & Kendall (opposite Court square), boots and
shoes ; E. Stockbridge, merchant tailor ; Lewis Briggs, grocei'ies
and James Mills, fancy goods and millinery ; while Luther Grant
advertised :
—
" Shorrevals and Over'alls
And Pantaloons he'll make.
Cutting too lie"ll always do
And will no cabbage take."
Carlo Smith kept a glazing establishment in the rear of the bank,
and Festus Smith ran a blacksmith shop. Reference is made still to
the " Plainfield Gate," north of Col. Quartus Stebbins's house.
Business changes were of course made from time to time, but
about the close of the period covered by this chapter Spencer & Orne
had a crockery store north of the Dwight store. Then came Elisha
Edwards, druggist and grocery ; Edmund Rowland, dry goods ; Capt.
Tom Sargeant, jeweller ; H. Y. Beach, furniture ; Reynolds & Morris,
dry goods ;
Dr. Brewer, druggist, in the dark basement of which was
Henry Brewer's little grocery ; " Springfield Republican," north
corner of jVIain and Sanford streets ; Daniel Bontecou, with Elliot's
barber shop in the rear ; Elijah Blake, shoemaker ; Sterns & Spar-
hawiv, druggists ; Seth Flagg, jeweller, and William Calender, book-
store ;
James Wells, dry goods, boots and shoes (Metcalf & Luther) ;
Mr. Tucker, groceries and bottled beer ; Josiah Howe, with black-
;