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A. E. Strand. <title>A History of the Norwegians of Illinois</title>, Chicago: John Anderson Pub. Co., <date when="1905">1905</date>, pp. 244-45.
<title level="a">[C. Jevne & Co., Retailers]</title>
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<publisher>The Newberry Library</publisher>
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<note>Transcribed from digital images contributed to the Internet
Archive by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.</note>
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A. E. Strand. <title>A History of the Norwegians of Illinois</title>, Chicago: John Anderson Pub. Co., <date when="1905">1905</date>, pp. 244-45.
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<p>C. Jevne & Co., at 110-12 Madison Street, Chicago is probably the greatest retail distributor of good things to eat of Boston and New York. The business was started by Christian Jevne at 41 Kinzie Street, near the north branch of the Chicago River in 1865. His capitol was about $200. The present president of the company, Mr. Otto Christian Erickson, was appointed treasurer and bookkeeper in 1868 and has since been actively and continuously connected with the firm. In 1870 the business was moved to No. 1-3, North Clark Street, right at the foot of the bridge, where they met with an unexpectedly large increase in their business. The great fire in 1871, however, wiped it all out with the exception of $5000 in bank and about $4000 in outstanding accounts. About two weeks afterwards the business was reopened on Halsted Street, where it remained until 1874, when it was moved back to North Clark Street. It was a busy spot in Chicago at that time and especially a gathering place for farmers and lake shipping interests. The <pb facs="5423969_2_1136.jpg" n="2"/>firm was then doing a business of $375,000 a year and had to seek larger quarters. They built their present building at 110-112 Madison Street and moved there in 1878. Christian Jevne died in 1898. Mr. Otto C. Erickson was taken in as a member of the firm in 1887 and has continuously increased the business. They employ from 100 to 125 men, fourteen of whom are drivers who look after forty horses. They are large importers getting their coffee direct from Sumatra and Arabia, their tea from Japan, China and Ceylon, wine from Europe, cheese, fish, canned goods and aquavit from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The company has direct dealings with every country in the world and it is interesting to note that for the past fifteen years every ship freighting coffee from Sumatra in the East Indies has been a Norwegian, are officered and manned by Norwegians, with the exception of two or four ships which is employed each year for the handling of coffee purchased directly from the government of Holland at its four annual coffee auctions. Three years ago the company was incorporated, and Otto G. Erickson was elected as the first-president. The authorized capitol is $200,000 to which can be added a small sum as undivided profits.</p>
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