Information Regarding Mermod & Jaccard

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Goodman King, president of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., has been elected a member of the Executive Council of the St. Louis Manufacturers’ and Export Association, which has been formed by the merging of the Missouri Manufacturers’ Association and the Latin-American and Foreign Trade Association. Mr. King suggested the new name for the consolidated organization.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 28th June 1911

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Mermod-Jaccard-King - St. Louis - 1944

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Goodman King, president of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., has returned from his trip to Europe, on which he made heavy purchases.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 5th October 1910

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George Mitchell and W. R. Sprague, formerly with the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., have taken positions with the Hess & Culbertson Jewelry Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 29th January 1913

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Goodman King, president of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., St. Louis, Mo., sailed from this port on the White Star liner Cedric on Saturday for Europe, where he will visit the jewelry and art centers including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin and Dresden. He will be away about two months.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 26th July 1911

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Jaccard's - St. Louis - 1920

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The Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. has on exhibition in its Broadway windows the medals for the international bowling tournament, now in progress here. They were designed and made by the Mermod company.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st February 1911

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Goodman King, president of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., has purchased a $1,000 share of stock in a project to organize a universal exposition to be held in St. Louis six months in every year. Mr. King and 24 other leading business men have given the enterprise an impetus by purchasing $25,000 worth of stock. As soon as $100,000 has been subscribed work will begin. It is intended to further finance the plan by forming a club of 300, who will pay an initiation of $100 and $25 annual dues.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st February 1911

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Clarence H. King, vice-president of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., is spending several weeks in New York.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st December 1915

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LITCHFIELD, ILL., Nov. 12.—Harry J. White, for 17 years the leading jeweler of Litchfield, Ill., died at the St. Francis Hospital, Friday, after a very brief illness, resulting from an attack of appendicitis.

He was born in Litchfield Sept. 1, 1877, and received his education in the local schools. After a short period as mail carrier he entered the employ of S. O. Harvel, a jeweler of Staunton, later purchasing the store, which he conducted for two years and a half.

Desiring wider experience, he entered the employ of Mermod, Jaccard & King, St. Louis, with whom he remained a year and a half, giving up his position to establish himself as a jeweler in his home town, where he remained for the balance of his life.

He was married on Sept. 1, 1906, to Miss Reba M. Snell. To this union were born two children, Elizabeth A., wife of Clelland Friddle; and Shirley Ormond, at home. These, with his mother, Elizabeth D. White, and two brothers, Jesse D. and Frank O., survive.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th November 1917

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DEATH OF GOODMAN KING

Pioneer Jeweler, Who Was a Member of the Trade for Over Half Century, Passes Out of Life at His Home in St. Louis



St. Louis, Mo. May 15.—Goodman King, former president of the Mermod-Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., died at his home here Tuesday, May 11, of heart failure. He had been ill for a month and was found dead in his bed when members of his household came to awaken him.

The firm with which he was connected has been in business here for 97 years and Mr. King was connected with it for 52 years, up to his retirement several years ago, when it became a department of the Scruggs-Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co. Since that time it has been conducted as a firm department although advertising and operating as “Jaccard’s,” its best known trade name.

Goodman King was a native of Sussex, England, and came to St. Louis in 1865 shortly after arriving in this country. Soon after arriving here he found a job as bookkeeper with the then firm of Mermod & Jaccard, the leading jewelers of the city. He continued his connection for 52 years, rising in influence in its affairs until his name was added to the firm’s name and he was made its president. His holdings increased also until in 1917 he and his son held 42 per cent of the company’s stock.

He had a reputation for being a public spirited citizen and was interested in many of the leading civic enterprises started for the betterment of the city. At the time of the holding of the World’s Fair herein 1904 he was a member of the board of directors and for many years took an active interest in many public movements.

On his retirement from the firm several years, although he was past 70 years of age, he took the law course in a local school and in due course was admitted to the bar. He never was really in active practice of the law.

He is survived by a son. His funeral was held here from the family residence, Thursday, May 13, and was attended by many business men and former associates in local affairs.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 19th May 1926

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John C. Estes, superintendent of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., has been elected Chairman of the Sales Managers’ Bureau Problem Course of the Chamber of Commerce.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 21st February 1917

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Clarence Hopkins King, a son of Goodman King, president of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., is a member of the Yale Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club, which will give a concert at the Odeon, in this city, Dec. 29. Young Mr. King recently distinguished himself in the intercollegiate trap shoot, winning highest individual honors at Cambridge, between representatives of the big colleges.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th December 1905

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Mermod and Jaccard's - St. Louis - 1900

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Mermod and Jaccard Jewelry Co. - St. Louis - 1899

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Mermod-Jaccard-King - St. Louis - 1950

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Mermod-Jaccard-King - St. Louis - 1950

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Mermod-Jaccard-King - St. Louis - 1945

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Mermod-Jaccard-King - St. Louis - 1945

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