Information Regarding Mermod & Jaccard

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Trophy Design Accepted by Central States Amateur Rowing Association

St. Louis, AIo., Sept. 6.—The Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. was awarded the contract over strong competition to furnish the trophies contended for at the annual meeting of the Central States Amateur Rowing Association, held at Peoria, Il., in July. The design was a half cup on a shield. Twelve of them were furnished, one for each race. The trophies were greatly admired.

The Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. has also recently furnished six cups for rowing races of the Western Rowing Boat Club of St. Louis.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th September 1911

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Mr. Stevens, of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., has been confined to his home by sickness for the past three weeks.


Thomas Elkington, formerly with the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., has taken a position with the F. W. Drosten Jewelry Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th September 1911

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The employes of the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co. have contributed S36.40 to the Lake Employment Fund.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 14th February 1894

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At the meeting of the stockholders of the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co , St. Louis, Mo., last week, the following were elected directors : A. S. Mermod, D. C. Jaccard, C. F. Mathey and Goodman King. The same officers were elected.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 21st February 1894

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Mermod · Jaccard · King - St. Louis - 1951

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Mermod · Jaccard · King - St. Louis - 1951

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The Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. has been making an European art exhibit during the past week. Goodman president of the company, was a member of the general committee that completed arrangements for the National Defense Conference for Mayors held in St. Louis March 3 and 4. Mr. King was also a member of the special committee that looked after the Kansas mayors.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th March 1916

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R. O. Bolt, manager of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., has gone to New York on business.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th March 1917

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Charles F. Stephens, who was for many years connected with the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., left that company a few weeks ago and became affiliated with the Hess & Clubertson Jewelry Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 21st December 1921

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Goodman King, president of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., was enrolled during the past week by a St. Louis newspaper as a member of its “I Used to Know Club.” The “club” is a cartoon feature, in which well-known St. Louisans are pictured at the occupations at which they got their starts in life. The artist of the “I Used to Know Club” portrays Mr. King as the artist conceives him to have been when he was a bookkeeper.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th April 1913

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James Dutter, silver buyer for the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., of St. Louis, spent a couple of days in Chicago last week looking over the markets, on his way to southern Wisconsin, where he will remain for two weeks with his family, resting up for the Fall business.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 22nd July 1925

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Mermod, Jaccard & King have a booth this week at the Aero Show at the Coliseum, E. H. Engler and J. Booker being in charge of the booth. One feature is a large clock telling the world’s time. It has attracted a great deal of attention, and many questions have been asked in regard to it. Another feature is an automobile clock made of French bronze. On one side is a small clock, on the other is a thermometer and a barometer. The automobile can be set in motion when the clock, which has an eight-day movement, is wound. It is about 12 inches long and about 9 inches high. It is the only one of its kind in the country, and is valued at $325.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th November 1910

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About Dec. 1 A. O. Grimes, of Mermod, Jaccard & King, will leave the employ of that firm to take service with the Hess & Culbertson Jewelry Co., 7th and Locusts Sts. E. H. Engler, who has been with Mermod, Jaccard & King for 21 years, is going to leave the jewelry business entirely.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th November 1910

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Charles Westinghaus, formerly with Mermod, Jaccard & King, is now with the F. W. Drosten Jewelry Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th November 1910

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H. L. De Witt was arrested last Monday charged by the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co. with having stolen several diamond brooches while acting as a salesman during Christmas week. He went to work for them Dec. 7 and left on Dec. 19, suddenly disappearing without any explanation, Several days later the brooches were missed. The jewelry was finally located in a pawn shop. The owner saying it had been sold to him by De Wit. After his arrest he denied the theft, but finally admitted having stolen two of brooches. Bond was obtained for him Tuesday and he was released. De Witt has obtained a living by acting broker, selling goods on commission.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 31st January 1900

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The Mermod-Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., which was established 96 years ago, was the oldest business concern to be represented at a Contemporary Dinner of Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Co., St. Louis, in their tea room on April 16. The dinner was a community feature of the Diamond Jubilee of Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney, which acquired the Mermod-Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., in 1917, Forty-two concerns were represented at the dinner. An old ledger of Mermod-Jaccard & King brought to light last week disclosed many interesting accounts in which names of the founders and early leaders of St. Louis were prominent. In quaint writing and careful French are inscribed such items as “$2 for repairing the watch of Madame Chouteau,’ $5 for shoe buckles for Advocate Bogy,” ‘$10 for mosaic brooch for Madame Cabanne,” “$2.50 for a clock for College de St. Louis (St. Louis University),” “$12 for bracelet for Madame Papin of Kakaskia” and many other entries reflecting the life and fashions of the old French St. Louis of almost a century ago. Another jewelry concern represented at the Jubilee Dinner was the J. Bolland Jewelry Co., which was founded in 1848.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 22nd April 1925

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Richard O. Bolt, manager of the manufacturing department of the Mermod-Jaccard-King Jewelry Co., has departed on a combined business and pleasure trip in the east.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 21st November 1923

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Clarence H. King, vice president of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., has been elected president of the St. Louis branch of the Hughes National League.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th November 1916

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The huge silver loving cup made by the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. for the Post-Dispatch, and presented to the East St. Louis Commercial Club as winner of a membership contest with the Business Men’s League of St. Louis, which was pictured and described in Tue Jewelers' Circular recently, is to be exhibited in the principal cities of the east by A Lyman Donlin, of East St. Louis, who is to appear before the chief commercial bodies of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other cities and tell of the advantages of the middle west.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd July 1913

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In a window of the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co., last week, were displayed the medals made by the concern to be awarded to the winners in the Irish Nationalists in their athletic contests which were held at the Fair ground Sunday. The medals number 11 in all and are of 14-kt. gold. They hang from a bar, upon which are the Irish and American flags in their natural colors done in hard enamel. The discs suspended from the bars are of heavy gold. In the center are the initials “I. N.,” in enamel. On a belt surrounding these are the words “athletic games.” On each side the belt is inlaid with enamel in red and blue. A Mercury foot on each side gives the idea of swiftness. The whole is surrounded by a wreath in heavy gold beautifully engraved.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 27th June 1904

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