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1898 BILLHEAD ST LOUIS MISSOURI SAMUEL CUPPLES WOODEN WARE COORIGINAL
IN 1880S, WAS THE LARGEST OF IT'S KIND IN THE COUNTRYSAMUEL WAS A CIVIC LEADER IN ST LOUISPRESIDENT: SAMUEL CUPPLES
VP: ROBERT BROOKINGSTREASURER: E S PIERCESECRETARY: A W BENEDICTSOLD TO: R H NORRIS HARDWARE, CHILDRESS TEXAS
Cupples moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1851 and establishedhis own woodenware business under the name of Samuel Cupples & Company. In1858, Cupples partnered with Thomas Marston and the business became Cupples& Marston. The business was very successful, but the partnership wasdissolved twelve years later. Cupples gained new partners in H.G. and Robert S.Brookings. and A.A. Wallace and the business became known as Samuel Cupples& Company again. With the Brookings brothers, Cupples enlarged his company toenormous proportions. The company was reorganized in 1883 and was again renamedto Samuel Cupples Woodenware Company. Cupples became president of that firm,which was the largest of its kind in the country.
Samuel also built the St. Louis Terminal Cupples Station& Property Company, known as "Cupples Station," a most valuableasset to St. Louis merchants. The Station was a business center created at ajunction where almost all railroads in St. Louis intersected. On this land, asystem of warehouses was erected and the railroads could traverse it throughtracks in the warehouse basements. St. Louis merchants could then receive andreship goods in one place and the expense of handling goods was significantlydiminished. The Station was gifted to Washington University by Cupples andRobert S. Brookings. Cupples also established the Samuel Cupples EnvelopeCompany.
In 1900, Cupples, with the agreement of Brookings, turnedall company assets totaling $4 million over to Washington University inaddition to funds for the construction of three new buildings: this buildingCupples I, Cupples II Hall and the Cupples Engineering Building, which wasdemolished in 1967 to make room for Bryan Hall. Cupples also served on theboard of directors at Washington University. Samuel was also a millionaire bythirty.
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