February i, 1908.] 



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The Obituary Record. 



JULIUS W. BRUNN. 



JULIUS W. BRUNN, senior iiK-mbcr of the firm of Hagemeyer 

 & Brunn, of New York, died on December 30 at the age of 74. 

 Mr. Brunn was born in Hamburg, Germany, whence he came 

 to New York, estabhshing himself in business as a commission 

 merchant on August 3. 1858. On June i, 1859, he associated him- 

 self with Mr. F. E. Hagemeyer, founding the firm of Hagemeyer 

 & Brunn, in which he remained a member until his death. 

 Although latterly he was not active in its management, he visited 



the office almost 

 daily. 



The firm have 

 been connected 

 with the rubber 

 import trade for 

 about 20 years, 

 since their friends, 

 the import house 

 of J. H. Andresen, 

 of Oporto, Por- 

 tugal, established a 

 branch house in 

 Manaos, which has 

 lately been formed 

 into the Sociedade 

 Anonyme "Arma- 

 zenas Andresen," 

 now one of the 

 most important 



- ,,,T, houses on the 



Julius W. Brunn. . , , 



Amazon and the 



second largest receivers at Manaos. Hagemeyer & Brunn's first 



consignments they used to get from sailing vessels belonging to 



the Andresen fleet, plying between Portugal, Brazil, and New 



They further represent the well known Para house of 



York. 



Pires Teixeira & Co., from whom they receive Islands qualities. 



Besides his business activities Mr. Brunn was connected with 

 some notable charitable institutions in New York city and held 

 honorable positions with the German society and was long vice 

 president of the German Savings Bank of New York. He 

 belonged to the Lincoln Club of Brooklyn and was for 45 years 

 a member of Plymouth church. 



OHLANDO C. SMITH. 



Orl.\ndo C. Smith, of Chicago, one of the most widely known 

 shoe jobbers in the country, died in that city on December 27, 

 in his seventy-first year. He was born at Randolph, New York, 

 May II, 1827, and removed at an early age with his parents to 

 the northwest, wliere he became connected with the leather and 

 shoe trades. Later 

 he lived in Toledo, 

 Ohio, where in 

 1865 he formed the 

 firm of Smith & 

 Simmons, remain- 

 ing with it until 

 1S90, when he ac- 

 cepted the execu- 

 t i v e management 

 of Doggett, Basset 

 & Hills Co., prom- 

 inent shoe jobbers 

 in Chicago, and 

 moved to that city. 

 Two years later 

 the business was 

 reorganized as the 

 Smith - Wallace 

 Shoe Co.. with 

 Mr. Smith as pres- 

 ident. 



Mr. Smith retired from active business in 1905, after having 

 served for six sucessive terms as president of the Western Shoe 



Orlando C. Smith. 



