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George Huntington. George Huntington (April 9, 1850 – March 3, 1916) was an American physician who contributed a classic clinical description of the disease that bears his name— Huntington's disease. [1] Huntington described this condition in the first of only two scientific papers he ever wrote. He wrote this paper when he was 22, a year ...
By 1950, approximately ten cents out of every dollar spent on food in the United States passed over A&P counters. A&P: The Story of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company tells the story of how cofounder George Huntington Hartford and his sons John and George brought A&P to a popularity with consumers that few companies have ever achieved.
Known for. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company ( A&P) Partner. George Huntington Hartford. George Francis Gilman (c. 1826 – March 3, 1901) was an American businessman. A native of Waterville, Maine, he moved to New York City when he joined his father's leather tanning business. By age 30, he had his own leather business in New York.
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. (A&P), former German-owned food distribution company that operated supermarket chains in the United States and Canada. The company’s history traces to 1859, when George F. Gilman and George Huntington Hartford founded the Great American Tea Co. in New York City to trade in tea bought from the cargoes of the clipper ships.
Sep 3, 2018 · The Hartfords. In 1878, George Huntington Hartford took control of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company — better known as A & P — and it soon became America’s first grocery chain.
Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art. General view depicting location on Columbus Circle; Located on a trapezoidal plot just beyond the southwest corner of Central Park, the quirky, nine-story marble-clad building at Two Columbus Circle was erected in 1964 by George Huntington Hartford II, an heir to the A&P supermarket fortune, as the ...
George Sumner Huntington, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1924, died January 5, 1927, at the age of sixty-six years less two months, after a prolonged illness, induced by re-peated cerebral embolism. George S. Huntington—as he signed himself—was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 21, 1861. He was the son of Hezekiah ...
