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| MARY ANN FARRELL FIELD
Mary Ann Farrell Field was a milliner, with a store at 15 Baronne Street. She started in business during 1879 after a separation in property from her husband. In 1891, “owing to inability to collect accounts due her promptly, and to the unusual depression and stagnation in business, and to losses sustained in the course of business,” she was unable to meet her obligations even though she had “ample means to do so, and her assets largely exceed the amount of her liabilities.” |
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The record in Mrs. M. A. Field vs her creditors includes the lease for her store. Testimony of the property owner, L. L. Levy, notes that this was the third year of her second lease with him, and that she had previously done business on Canal Street. Interestingly, the previous tenant, Mrs. Ernestine Foerster, was also a milliner (and dressmaker), who had offered “a splendid stock of French Imported Millinery Goods, Hats, Bonnets, Plumes, Flowers, and all the novelties of the season in fancy goods.”
(Mrs. M. A. Field vs. Her Creditors. Orleans Parish Civil District Court, #31886) |