William Harmar & Company
Born in Sheffield in about 1828, William Harmar was listed as an American merchant in West Street in 1868. Besides spending periods in New York (where he had helped Tillotson sell off its stock in 1860), he lived at Rutland Lodge, Collegiate Crescent. He later moved to Jordanthorpe House, Norton, where the 1871 Census shows him living with his wife, three daughters (one of whom had been born in Brooklyn, New York, in about 1865), and three servants. By then, the US trade had peaked. The Sheffield Inde....
