Charles Fox Hovey

C.F. Hovey & Co., Summer Street, Boston, 19th c.

Charles Fox Hovey (1807–1859) was a businessman and abolitionist in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th century. He established C.F. Hovey and Co., a department store on Summer Street. Through the years Hovey's business partners included Washington Williams, James H. Bryden, Richard C. Greenleaf and John Chandler. In 1947 Jordan Marsh absorbed Hovey's.^[1][2][3][4]

References

1. ^ Harvard Business School. C.F. Hovey Company, Business Records, 1837-1920.
2. ^ Richard H. Abbott. Cotton & capital: Boston businessmen and antislavery reform, 1854-1868. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1991; p.32.
3. ^ The Hovey Book. 1914; p. 266.
4. ^ Boston Directory. 1849.

Further reading

• Tribute to the Memory of Charles F. Hovey, Boston, 1859.
• Daniel Hovey Association. The Hovey Book: describing the English ancestry and American descendants of Daniel Hovey of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Press of L.R. Hovey, 1914; p. 266+
• History of the House of Hovey, containing some interesting reminiscences of almost three quarters of a century. Boston: 1920.

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  C.F. Hovey & Co., Summer Street, Boston, 19th c.

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  Hovey's after the fire, 1872

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Name	Hovey, Charles Fox
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Date of birth	1807
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Date of death	1859
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