Excerpt from The House That James BuiltIn the meantime the business had prospered. The manufacture of ink and blacking had long since been discontinued. In the year 1876 came the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where the Company had quite an elaborate booth. Carrie and I were taken there for two weeks quite an experience for us. It gave me a thrill to be taken into the office of the President of the exposition for an introduction to Gen eral Hawley, afterward Governor of Connecticut and United States Senator. When the business was incorporated in 1885, as The J. B. Williams Company, he became President and Uncle William Vice Presi dent. Cousins George and Bernard Williams were named Treasurer and Secretary, and Brother David W. Superintendent. I became associated with the business in 1886.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.