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BY HARR.Y U HAL*
Editor’s Note—This is one
of a series of articles to appear
in the Bluffton News dealing
with early Ohio history. Others
will appear in forthcoming
issues.
Pioneer Ohio
Merchandising
“You don’t want a damned thing
and you had better clear out—the
sooner the better,” Joel D. Butler,
Marion, Marion County, storekeeper
told his hard-to-please woman custom
er nearly 125 years ago.
The woman had looked the stock
over without buying and after show
ing her a few more articles, Butler
walked from behind the counter, sat
down and lit his pipe. “No-mam,”
he insisted, “you don’t want nothin’
—go on out.”
Butler came from Delaware and
established his store in 1829. Every
item of his small stock was kept
neatly in place and he did not want
it “mussed up.” Goods were sold at
enormous prices and credit was the
rule. Very little money entered into
any transaction.
Pioneer Banker
He took in money from farmers
however, and paid them yearly in
terest for it—a sort of banking
business on the side. But Butler
kept no books and had no regular
account of his liabilities. He did
business for many years but failed
when his depositors finally wanted
their money back.
Despite his squeamishness and
discourteous treatment of patrons,
the old man managed to own his own
store room next north of it, which he
later sold to J. S. Reed & Co.,
competitors.
Laid out in 1822, Marion had
three stores, three taverns and a
few worshops and cabins when the
county was organized in 1824. Stocks
of merchandise were small and
usually consisted of whisky, tobacco
powder and lead cotton cloth and
calico. These were the staples and
no money was in the country.
Deadbeats Are Lynched
Everybody wanted to buy but no
one had anything to pay with. Soon,
mink and deer skins were legal
tender and great numbers of them
were gathered in by the traders and
storekeepers. Credit was given free
ly to the people and as most of them
were transcient, unmarried and un
stable, the losses equaled the gains.
Sometimes, when such a customer’s
abuse of confidence was too flagrant,
the settlers lynched him.
Business ran along the same
way until about 1839 when a Yankee
merchant opened his store and began
selling at small profits but for ab
solute cash on the counter. The old
traders, who had learned the busi
ness their own way, were shocked.
They tried thp-ir best to run the
Yankee out of town but could not
do it—he had come to stay.
I Gradually business took up the
Yankee’s way and eventually all
were happier. The fanners prosper-
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lost their profits in bad debts. In
place of $2,000 or $3,000 stocks of
merchandise, stocks of $20,000 and
more became common. Before that
failure was the rule and success in
merchandising was the exception.
Old Fashioned Store Passes
So departed the old fashioned
store from Marion, Ohio—the store
with a scanty stock of staples its
handy whisky bottle and a tin cup
its scribbled day-book and ledger
its high prices and Noah’s Ark
fashions.
At Marion, Eber Baker, who came
there in 1821 laid out the town next
year, and had the first of the three
taverns. Baker did a good business
with the long strings of covered
wagons, sometimes 50 in a line,
loaded with grain for the Great
Lakes.
The tavern rates were six and a
quarter cents a lodging twice that,
or a York shilling, for horse feed
and three times £s much for a meal.
To immigrants and movers passing
through for points further west a
large discount was given.
Going back a bit further to a
bigger and older city, pioneer stocks
in the stores and the business
troubles of the merchants who did
business there nearly 150 years ago
will interest both the storekeeper
and the customer of today.
Early Cincinnati
Beginning November 8, 1795, Cin
cinnati, then less than 1,000 popula
tion, had a weekly newspaper,
“Centinel of the Northwest Ter
ritory,” with four 8'a by 10%
pages. Published on the corner of
Front and Sycamore streets, it sold
for seven cents a copy or $2.50 a
year. William Maxwell was
publisher.
From its beginning until 1800,
when it folded up, the paper was
well patronized by the pioneer busi
ness men. Little advertisements like
today’s want ads filled the front page
and most of the inside pages, with
only a smattering of three-months
old foreign news here and there.
From these ads a story of pioneer
merchandising unfolds. All then
were log cabin stores.
November 29, 1793, Thomas Gib
son announced the arrival of his
store with “dry goods, Madeira,
Sherry, Lisbon and Teneriff wines
spirits, brandy brown and loaf
sugars pepper, allspice and other
groceries.” In that issue too, “mer
chants, tavern keepers and others
who had licenses” were asked to
meet at the cabin of John Grier “to
consult about matters concerning
themselves only.”
Levi Munsell had for sale at his
house “a few barrels of spirits, cor
dials, etc., in lots of about 10 gal
lons each.” In the issue of December
21, 1793, William Avery was trying
to collect his accounts and threatened
to “take measures.” Issue of Janu
ary 25, 1794. James Ferguson want
ed to leave and was trying to collect
his accounts and sell his building.
William Tate announced the opening
of his store ,with “dry goods and
groceries”. John Galbraith also was
trying to get in his accounts and
wanted to move away. John Mills
was advertising for country produce
and provisions but did not want to
buy whisky.
In January, 1794, David Ziegler
“had just come from Philadelphia
with a stock of W’est Indian and dry
goods and started a store. He would
take corn in payment. Joseph Prince
offered “cash for furs at his shop
where hats were for sale.”
In February, 1794 (issue of Feb.
22), William Wilson had arrived with
groceries and dry goods and had
opened a store “kept by James Silver
next to where Henry Reed, dead, had
kept.” James Findlay also advertised
his store, where “deer and bear skins
and furs would be accepted.” Samuel
Black had given his accounts to the
town’s first lawyer, Thomas Goudy,
to be collected. April, 1794, John
Miller advertised that he had started
a butcher shop. So ran the ads of
155 years ago—in a weekly news
paper.
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