Hugh Taylor, Taylor & Taube, 114 Wall Street, New York City, to his brother, Alex Taylor, Owen O'Cork (or Corke) Mills, Bloomfield, Belfast, 16 July 1898
Hugh Taylor, Taylor & Taube, 114 Wall Street, New York City, to his brother, Alex Taylor, Owen O'Cork (or Corke) Mills, Bloomfield, Belfast, 16 July 1898
Description
Letter is not of great interest. Taylor had been travelling about working or looking for work. He had lived in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and had briefly worked for a small linen manufacturing company in Albany, Wisconsin. Taylor was either engaged in white-collar/office or managerial/foreman-type work. Through relatives and friends from Ulster, he has just secured a job job with Taylor & Taube, a Brooklyn cooperage firm, wor king in its New York City office. tte is very content, for he has two brothers also living and working in greater New York. He and his family plan to live in Brooklyn, and he plans to join a rowing club on Staten Island, on invitation of a former Ulsterman with whom he used to row in Ireland or England.
Date
16/07/1898
Date Issued
27/03/2023
Resource Type
Text
Archival Record Id
p155/67/19
Publisher
University of Galway
Extent
2pp
Topic
Taylor Letters
Geographic
New York City,New York (state),United States,Belfast,Antrim (county),Ireland
Temporal
Nineteenth century,Eighteen nineties
Genre
Transcript
Note
Title and transcript text by Professor Kerby Miller. Description by University of Galway.