PROFESSOR AYERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 111, 5 April 1884, Page 2

PROFESSOR AVERS.

The American alter ego of Hollo way '; — thejkte James C Ayer-^-died ib Massachusetts about five and a half yea rs ago.; . ; ; .Thafik^ ,to ;. free use of : advertising to the extent of some £25, .QQQ.a-v ear,; iand , twov millions .of; , f %lmanacs" printed innine or ien different languages, A}:erVnanieisaßwell known as that of Holloway, outside of England. But,as/ in the .latter case, that name deserves to be remembered Jfor " other - qualifications less frequently and, Jess obtrusively thrust before 1 :i thV 'public' I'«ye'1 '«ye'. M; M? Ayarjs began as a druggist's errand boy m Lowell, Massachusetts, His first em;pk>y.ey, Aljr, RpbinSj is/ still living* a few years he became a clerk, then opened a shop -himself, and began tonianu future some o( the five greparatioaii.' s-hicli nis lieirs are sfcili 'selling. Soon the youpg man, multiplied himself anrJ^o^sihfcyfrilly' p'ersUted 'm" money making, ih^t^hen^edic^ at the early ago df^o^ he haa L accumulated some" £3,500,00Gi .-Patent, iqedicines weije the basis of his'w'eaith,' but at hisdeah he. \yas engaged, m, irou mining "anjd* oahais m Michigan', m \Hva\ er cutting m Florida, irrreat" estate m several States, 'jJrlni'ijplHy iniNew^fYork city^; ' m cotton and wollen mills m Massa•chusetts^cV' y - "■ : I"? ; Ui;";jv>;i -■'*•■ ■■■ '."-■'■ "" J'«w" J. J.• ' -.•