San Francisco County
SHERWOOD & SHERWOOD
SHERWOOD
& SHERWOOD--The firm of Richard Harrison & Sherwood was organized in
Robert
Sherwood, a pioneer of the State, is now the sole owner of the business, which
is at present under the more direct management of his son, H. H. Sherwood. They are large importers and commission
merchants. The line of agencies the
house represents may be said to include the best known articles in their
respective departments. They represent
the manufacturers of their lines of goods for the States and Territories west
of the Rocky Mountains, and have branch houses at Portland and Los Angeles,
which, with a competent force of traveling men, enables them to distribute the
merchandise to the best advantage. Their
facilities for doing business are perhaps unequaled by
any house on the Pacific coast. Many of
their lines of goods are laid down at seaports on the Pacific coast as cheap
freights as they can be landed at Atlantic ports. This is by reason of the fact that sailing
vessels which must come for wheat cargoes are glad to accept low rates of
freight on merchandise thence. Their
store, a four-story structure, completed in the most approved manner, is
located in a desirable portion of the city, at Nos. 212 and
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
pages 678-679, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2006 Donna L.
Becker.