- E. J. CADY, dealer in books, stationery, wall paper, silver-plated
ware and jewelry, East Bridge
- street; was born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn Co., Ind., and
came to Wisconsin Dec. 19, 1877, and located in Beloit; when
2 weeks old, removed with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio; was
errand boy in the office of the Cincinnati Times, then clerk
in a wholesale picture house; afterward book-keeper to Lewis
& Neblett, wholesale glass and lamp manufacturers; he afterward
kept books for McCollough & Co., iron merchants, who were
succeeded by William T. Simpson & Co., of which concern he
was sole business manager for two years, after which he took
a traveling position with Gibson & Co., publishing house,
where, by hard work and strict attention to business, he accumulated
enough money to go into business for himself in Beloit, under
the firm name of E. J. CADY & Co., afterward changed to ROSS
& CADY. Married on Dec. 18, 1877, Mamie VINTON. Members
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Beloit.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 737.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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