1888 Thomas Conroy Billhead
This 1888 Thomas Conroy Billhead is a great piece of Ephemera. Paper goods from the previous century provide us large cookie crumbs along our way to finding out some of the riddles. If for nothing else the Bill head, and envelope provide a picture or window into business names during certain segments. Conroy as a company had been in business since 1830 and though the years changed its names as follows:
John Conroy – 1830
J.&J.C. Conroy- 1840
J.C. Conroy & Co.- 1864
Conroy Bissett & Malleson – 1875
Conroy & Bissett – 1881
Thomas J. Conroy – 1883