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Meet the Tredwells: Seabury Tredwell, Part 3 - Man of Opportunity - Merchant's House Museum
An Astute Businessman George Chapman, who founded the Merchant’s House Museum in 1936, named it “The Old Merchant’s House” as a tribute to the early 19th century merchants who were known as the old merchants, among them Seabury Tredwell, who built New York City into the “commercial emporium of America” (as was said in the …