Talk:National Building

Describing my edits
I will be editing "two Seattle grocers" here to "two Seattle wholesale grocers" for clarity. One of the firms mentioned continued as a retail grocer.

Also, based on the Seattle Times article cited for this text, the phrase "formed... by... Julius C. Lang & Co." is false. The 1902 article explicitly states that Lang & Co itself was not part of the new company. Julius Lang himself was an investor, and took the presidency of the company. I changed this as well.

"The National Grocery Company was formed in late 1902 by Portland, Oregon wholesale grocer Julius C. Lang & Co. in order to acquire and merge two Seattle grocers, Sylvester Brothers & Co. and the Louch-Augustine Co."

More context...

Julius Lang purchased only the wholesale grocery business of Louch & Augustine. The retail grocery continued, known still as Louch and Augustine for several years. In 1907 Henry Anderson Kyer bought out Charles Louch and the retail grocery became known as Augustine & Kyer.

I wrote an article describing the history of Louch, Louch & Augustine, and Augustine & Kyer available here, but only briefly mentioned National Grocery Company. Instead, here is a primary source on the formation of the company, from the Seattle Times on November 23, 1902, page 9 "Big Combine Noted":

Mr. Howard Allen, who has been manager of the wholesale branch of the Louch-Augustine Company, talked with The Times last night from Portland by telephone. Regarding the national Grocery Company, Mr. Allen said:

"The National Grocery Company is a new organization and is not a branch of any firm now in existence. It was organized fro the purpose of purchasing two wholesale grocery houses in Seattle, the wholesale department of the Louch Augustine Company and Sylvester Bros. & Co. The new company has $300,000 capital, fully paid up. J. C. Lang, formerly of Lang & Co., Portland, has severed his connection with that firm and will move to Seattle to assume the duties of president of the National Grocery Company. I will be lead manager of the new house.

"Slightly more than half of the stock is owned by Seattle parties, the remainder being owned in Portland. We will occupy the premises now occupied by Sylvester Bros & Co., at Occidental Avenue and Main Street, and will be ready for business December 1. The Louch-Augustine Company will go out of the wholesale business. We will give Seattle a wholesale grocery house second to none on the Pacific Coast."

Charles Louch left Seattle the next year, retiring back to England. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roket (talk • contribs) 07:21, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

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