HENRY EDWIN NESMITH, SR. (1828-1901)
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SARAH HOWARD "SALLY" MACOMBER (1825-1878)
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Empire Stores - Brooklyn
In 1856, Henry Nesmith and his father purchased a lot of land by the Brooklyn waterfront where warehouses stood, to handle much of the goods being made and/or shipped by booming Brooklyn. These warehouses burned down in a fire in 1869, so James and his son built a new, four-story warehouse at the Dock Street side, and this opened as Empire Stores in 1870.