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| Glass Category: | Liquor advertising | | Glass Type: | Thick-walled pressed glass, 10 outside panels | | Label Type: | Embossed | | Dimensions: | 1-15/16 " x 1-9/16 " x 1-7/16" | | Edmonson: | OASG, p. 42, entry #2 | | State: | IL | | City: | Chicago | | | | | | Notes: | |
Chapin & Gore listed from 1870-1918.
From OASG: Chapin & Gore Listed as wholesaler 1870-1919. According to Panek (PC) in the early 1850s, Gardner Spring Chapin, a broker in mining stocks, met James Jefferson Gore, who was handling freight overland to Nevada. Gore, sick, and in need of money, asked Chapin for a $200 loan so he could continue on to Nevada. The loan led to a lifelong friendship. Chapin moved to Fairbault, MN, where he opened a dry goods store. When the business went poorly there he moved to Chicago and established a grocery on Madison street. Gore became a successful businessman and sought out Chapin in Chicago. They opened a grocery store in 1865 at the corner of State and Monroe. Gore convinced Chapin to add a liquor department, and soon liquor was their major enterprise. Just before the big fire in October 1871, they put out a brand of their own which they called "1867." Gore soon added the words "Sour Mash." The firm prospered and gained world wide fame. Branches were established in Kansas City, Indianapolis and Paris, and the partnership acquired their own distillery in Kentucky (RD #10, 6th District?). Gore died in 1891.
Brand names used by this company include: "Chapin & Gore S. M. 1887", "Old Jim Gore", and "Old Jim Gore."
Company name timeline:
Chapin & Gore (1870-1910, 1913-1918), Chapin & Gore Inc (1911)
Address timeline:
162 State (1870-1871), 71-75 Monroe (1873-1902), & 142 22 nd (1873-1880), &121 Clark (1877-1880), & 73 S Halstead (1877), & 152 22 nd (1894), & 214 31 st (1894), 16-22 Adams (1904-1910), 61-67 E Adams (1911)
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