Excerpt from Men of Progress: Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in and of the State of Connecticut Hallerstein, raphael, Wholesale and Retail Milliner, Hartford, was born in Westphalia, Ger many. After attending the public schools in West phalia, he came to this country at the age of fifteen. In 1865 he commenced his business career as a dealer in millinery goods and established himself in the location where the Cheney Building now stands. At the time of the Bee Hive fire he found quarters farther down on Main street, where he remained two years. He then moved into the Hudson Building and from there to 412 - 426 Main street. In 1894 he moved to his present store, 372 - 378 Main street, where he occupies the first and second floors with the basement. This is the largest and finest store of the kind in the state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.