Show seventy on year years in a shoe shoo shop charles 11 wilson of troy N T occupies tho the unique position ot of haying having ben been in business in one building for 71 rears at least east he will bave completed 71 11 year rears in the shoe shoo business at river street august 12 next this record it Is believed belle vod can be equaled by few if it any oboe retailer retailers in tats oautry lou ou mr wilson has also been in business for himself for or more than CO 50 rears mr air veleon N ilson Is today just as a much in active bust neca as be he was al moat most three quarters of a century ago when as a thirteen year old lad he entered the employ of john leonard williams Wll llama of troy to be that was august 12 IM 1810 mr williams kept a shoe shoo tore store at river street in a building which had been erected to in 1803 and so the building BOW now occupied by mr wilson for his retail shoe business la is one of the oldest buildings in troy |