In 1876 he had become a partner of Charles James Kershaw in the ownership of the Northwestern Marine elevator and in 1878 he and his father purchased the Reliance Flour Mill at West Water street.
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Through her father, Bertha was a descendant of merchant bankers Alexander Brown of Baltimore, James Brown and Brown's son-in-law and partner Howard Potter of New York; and through her mother, the granddaughter of Charles James Kershaw and Mary Leavenworth Kershaw (a descendant of Henry Leavenworth).