31 Main Street
W.J. Matthias Stoves, 31 Main Street
(William Matthias on the wagon)
Henry Mallory's Gems of Thought and Character Sketches (1895) describes some of Hamilton's early businessmen including the Matthias brothers:
"Isaac and Jacob Matthias, for forty years or more, carried on a copper-smith and stove store. Never were two brothers more different in their ways and manners, and never did two men work in more perfect harmony. No matter what one did, the other never uttered an objection. They both lost heavily in their adventures in the dry goods business, but by their frugality and industry they always lived well and left valuable property behind when they died." (p. 34)
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