[p. 750] is a firm name representing one of New Castle's largest business enterprises as well as one of the oldest. The present members of the firm are: Mrs. J. C. Euwer, Harry G. Euwer and Mrs. L. R. Gordon.
Harry G. Euwer was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1878, and is a son of Capt. J. C. Euwer and a grandson of J. N. Euwer.
J. N. Euwer, the grandfather, came to New Castle in 1834, and, with Samuel Euwer, established the present business which has been conducted by succeeding generations of the family until the present. The founders were succeeded by J. C. Euwer and brothers, the former of whom was born at New Castle, in 1838. In the course of years the firm style became J. N. Euwer & Sons, which changed to J. N. Euwer's Sons' Sons. In 1881 two sons enlarged the business by opening a second store and both were operated in connection until 1900, when the present style came into use. The firm occupies some 20,000 feet of floor space in the main store and in addition they have a furniture department utilizing four floors, with eighty feet of frontage on South Mill street. The building is triangular in shape, running back 100 feet. This is the largest department store in New Castle and it does a business which would be considered large in a metropolitan city. Mr. Euwer owns also a bowling alley and billiard hall on Neshannock Street. He possesses the noted business qualities of the family and personally is a capable man of affairs.
In 1900, Mr. Euwer was married to Miss Leah Abraham, of Swansea, Wales. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons and the Elks and socially to the Lawrence and Country clubs. He is a very active member of the New Castle Chamber of Commerce.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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