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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Historic Businesses of the
Tri-Counties
Local Business History Section
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Mr. Brodrick, on left, was tailor for Shepards for many years. |
| Business: M. H. Shepard, Clothier |
| Township: Richmond Township - Mansfield Borough |
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Morris H, Shepard established his men's
clothing store in Mansfield in 1889. He was not established at this location
until after the fire of Hotel Allen which earlier stood on this corner
(NW corner of N. Main and Wellsboro Streets)
The Shepard-Bailey Building was built in 1906. Initially Shepard's
occupied the left half and by 1907 Grange National Bank occupied the right
half. By 1920 Palmer Brothers Jewlers had moved into the right hand location.
Evolution of Corner of N. Main and Wellsboro Streets
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Clippings on the Shepard-Bailey building in Mansfield built on the location
of the former Soldiers Orphans School, later the Hotel Allen wich burned
1904.
Local Facts & Comments
- The Mansfield Advertiser says: “ The asphalt and gravel roof which
Charles W. Earley recently placed on the new Shepard-Bailey building, if
in one roll would weigh nearly twelve tons. The stone walk in front of
the building is being extended to the stores by means of cement. The roof
and the brick work by plasterers is being rushed.” [Wellsboro Agitator
Sept. 12, 1906]
Local Facts & Comments
- A Grange National bank, it is stated, will be started in Mansfield
this summer. Circulars announcing the fact have been received by some of
our citizens. The capital stock will be $50,000. – Advertiser [Wellsboro
Agitator May 29, 1907]
Grange Bank Buys Building [right half of the Shepard-Bailey Buidling]
Important Real Estate Transfer in Mansfield Last Week
Postmaster T.H. Bailey, of Mansfield, last Wednesday sold his half
of the new Shepard-Bailey building at the corner of Main and Wellsboro
streets to the Grange National Bank for $6,000.
The Elmira Advertiser says: “It will soon be handsomely fitted up for
use as a banking office. W.D. Husted, for a quarter of a century connected
with the Ross & Williams bank, has been elected cashier of the Grange
bank. He is now engaged in the insurance business, with offices in Williamsport.
He stated that after weighing the matter carefully, he had concluded t0
accept the position, because it will admit of his being at home steadily
instead of only occasionally. Leon Lewis, a member of the C.S. Lewis Company,
dealers in wagons and agricultural implements, has been elected assistant
cashier. He is a graduate of Mansfield Normal School, and later was a student
in Meeker’s School of Commerce, Elmira, until the death of his father,
C.S. Lewis, several months ago, when he was obliged to return to Mansfield
to look after the business interests of the estate.” [Wellsboro Agitator
July 10, 1907]
Grange Bank at Tioga
To Be Established Soon in That Town by the Pomona Grange
A Bank in Every County
Urged by the Pennsylvania State Grange – Master Hill Reports
Plan to the National Convention – Tioga the First – Philadelphia a Centre.
It is very evident that the recent visit to Tioga of W.F. Hill, Master
of the State Grange, and Hon. John G. McHenry, a banker of Benton, Columbia
county, was productive of good results, as it is now confidently expected
that a bank will be started in that borough in the near future.
A grange national bank in every county of Pennsylvania, with farmers
as its principal stockholders, was a project discussed most generally by
members of the National Grange at Atlantic City the past week.
A dispatch says:
The life insurance scandals, the failure of the Enterprise National
Bank, resentment at what the grangers believe is the use of their own money
against their interests by the big banks and trust companies, desire to
reap the financial benefits of bank stock held by themselves; these are
a few of the motives that are appealing to the farmers for support of the
plan.
The idea comes in the form of a carefully prepared report by W.F. Hill,
Master of the Pennsylvania State Grange. With John G. McHenry, of Benton,
Pa., President of the Columbia County National Bank, as the principal backer,
and with the member of Pomona Grange of Tioga county, as stockholders and
directors, the idea will be put into practical shape within a few weeks
by the organization of the Grange National Bank, of Tioga, in the borough
of Tioga.
The capitalization of this first bank has been fixed at $25,000. Of
this amount $6,000 was subscribed by residents of the borough and by farmers
who live near it. Its organization will be followed within a few months
by the foundation of fifteen other Grange National Banks in as many counties.
Within two years, it is planned to have one Grange National Bank in each
of the forty-five counties of Pennsylvania in which the Grange has a Pomona,
as the central county Grange is called.
All of these banks will feed and be fed by the Grange National Bank
of Pennsylvania, which will be established in Philadelphia. Organization
of this central institution will be perfected after about a dozen of the
smaller banks have been established.
Members of the Pennsylvania State Grange who are in attendance upon
the National Convention are unanimous in their endorsement of the plan.
“It will give to the farmers the use of money to finance their own
improvements, such as rural telephones,” said Mr. Hill in urging the idea.
“It will make the individual farmer more prosperous, and will be wonders
toward advancing the welfare of communities. Of course, there must be wise
and conservative administration of all the affairs of these banks. They
will be independent of each other, but each will have several men upon
the board of trustees, who will be also trustees of the other grange banks.
This will assure a uniformity and conservatism of action through all. The
amount of capital in each will depend upon the financial resources of the
district. Capital outside of the grange will be accepted. So certain of
success are we that Mr. McHenry has offered to make a written guarantee
to the stockholders of the Grange National Bank of Tioga, that he will
buy the stock of any holder who wishes to sell two years after its foundation
at a substantial increase upon the original investment. [[Wellsboro Agitator
Nov. 23, 1905]
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Mort (Morris H.) Shepard with wife Flora E. Richmond
and daughter Ivah
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1927 Yearbood Ad
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Mort Shepard died 1936 and he is buried in Prospect Cemetery |
Garrison's Mens Shop
Garrison's succeeded Shepard's Mens Shop in this first building of the
North Main Street west side block. The Shepard business was purchased by
John Myers and Merle Garrison. Later in the early 50's Merle and Jane Benedict
Garrison bought it from John. Merle had worked for Mort Shepard. Mort Shepard's
mother was Angeline Garrison, a sister of Merle's grandfather. It
was all in the family.
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1954 Carontawan Ad |
| BC Technologies occupies the location where Shepard's and Garrison's
operated. |
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