Information Regarding Mermod & Jaccard

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The Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co.’s fishing enthusiasts report a most successful outing, bringing home 265 game fish, according to the sworn statement of Walter D. Ely, of the repair department. The same crew made another trip last Saturday.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th June 1906

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F. K. Hatch, of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., goes July 1 on an extended vacation trip. Lee Schum, Walter Lauman, Jos. Rogers and Henry Eckerman, of this firm, made a week-end fishing trip to Stonewall, Ark., and made quite a record, bringing back 140 fish.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 27th June 1906

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The new Mermod & Jaccard building has the brick work now complete up to the fifth floor. It is not expected that the building will be ready for occupancy, however, for several months yet.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 21st December 1898

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John Menges, of Mermod, Jaccard & King Co., St. Louis, was in Chicago last week to visit his son Frank, who is at Great Lakes.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th September 1918

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The Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. furnished medals and trophies for the annual athletic games and contests at Piasa Chautauqua.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd August 1911

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The Mermod Jaccard Jewelry Co. did such a large holiday business that they had eighty salesmen on the floor. Goodman King says that the firm will soon manufacture all the goods they sell, with the exception of some rare and costly imported goods.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 28th December 1892

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R. Niehaus and John Menges, buyers for the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., who went to New York several weeks ago in company with Goodman King, president, have returned. Mr. King continued on to Europe.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 12th August 1908

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Mr. J. E. Creswick, formerly an engraver for the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewellry Co., passed away recently after a few days' illness.

Mr. Creswick was known to many of the co-workers of the institution, having been employed as an engraver, and for 45 years made the daily trip back and forth from Alton to attend his duties. This was continued up to a few years ago when his advanced age required him to discontinue these trips.


Alton Engraver, 87, Dies.
J. E. Creswick, a veteran engraver, 87, died yesterday at his home in Alton after a few days' illness with pneumonia. For forty-five years Creswick was an engraver for Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company, St. Louis.
One of his famous works is an engraving of Wagmor Crow, which is on exhibition at Washington University.
He was the father of Mrs. Daisy Creswick Rice, inspector of hygiene of the Alton public schools. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon in Alton.— News Clipping.


The family of Mr. J. E. Creswick deeply appreciate your kind expression of sympathy and extend their thanks for floral offering sent by his former co-workers.

Source: Topics - 18th February 1922

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Mr. George, well known in the east where he has been connected with many of the leading retail jewelry stores, in a number of cities, has become connected with the Mermod-Jaccard-King Jewelry Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th December 1921

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Mermod & Jaccard - St. Louis - 1897

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William Wuster, who recently came to St. Louis from Wyoming, has been appointed advertising manager of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., to succeed H. A. Fischaker, who resigned two weeks ago to go into business for himself.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 10th November 1909

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Diamond Salesman Found Dead in Basement in St. Louis, Mo., Believed to Have Been Murdered.

St. Louis, Nov. 20.—Frank J. Gangle, for several years a diamond expert and salesman in the employ of Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. and the Loftis Bros. Jewelry Co., was found dead Thursday morning in the basement of a building in course of construction at 1509 Washington Ave. His neck was broken and there was a bruise over the right eye. The fact that jewelry which he was known to have worn and a packet which he carried are missing, leads to the belief that he was robbed and murdered.

Gangle was found lying under the bulkhead opening of the first floor. His body had fallen 15 feet to the concrete floor of the basement. The opening was some distance from the pavement and access to it was difficult because of quantities of building material lying about. It is not considered probable that he could have wandered into the building and fallen through the hole. The theory of the police is that he was knocked down and robbed, and that the robbers, probably not intending to kill him, threw him through the opening in the floor to facilitate their escape.

An inquest was held and the verdict was that the injuries that caused his death were received in an unknown manner. Detectives are working on the case.

Gangle had boarded at 3677 Cook Ave. off and on for nine years. He has a brother, Charles, and a sister somewhere in the west.

The body of the man was still warm when found, and it was hurried to the City Dispensary in the hope that life had not entirely departed from it, but the doctors there pronounced him dead.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th November 1909

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St. Louis Souvenir Spoon:












STERLING - MERMOD JACCARD & CO

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The Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. furnished the badges for the St. Louis Advertising Men’s League, which were made after an original design submitted by that firm.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th March 1906

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The Phoenix-Like Rise of the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co.

St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 25.—The Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co. have settled themselves temporarily in the old location of A. Kurtzeborn & Sons, 410 and 412 North Broadway, opposite their former quarters. The company’s establishment was burned out at 4.30 o’clock A. M. Sunday. By 6 o’clock P. M. of the same day Goodman King, secretary of the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co., had made arrangements for the sale or rather amalgamation of the stock and good will of A. Kurtzeborn & Sons with his firm. It is stated, as showing the enterprise of the Mermod & Jaccard Co., that negotiations commenced at 8.30 o’clock A. M. Sunday. By the time stated above, formal verbal terms had been agreed upon, and they were formally ratified on Monday morning, when canvas signs in front of the store of A. Kurtzeborn & Sons announced that henceforth that place was the headquarters of the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co.

The terms of the sale were private, and in conversation with The Circular representative, Goodman King said: “We do not care just at this time to tell what the terms of sale were. You can say they were very satisfactory to all parties concerned.”

The building on their former location, northwest corner of Broadway and Locust St., will be rebuilt quickly, and the company intend shortly to emerge from their temporary embarrassment with a greater establishment than ever. By the terms of the sale with A. Kurtzeborn & Sons, that have been given to the public, the partners of this concern became identified as stockholders in the Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co.

The total amount of insurance carried was $441,000, divided as follows: On building, $112,500; on rents, $24,000; on stock under general firm, $256,700; on furniture and fixtures, $47,750. The adjustment of this insurance is progressing satisfactorily, and considerable salvage will accrue to the insurance companies from melted gold, silver, etc., found in the ruins. The jewelry firm had 10 fire-proof vaults in their basement, in which were stored the diamonds and other precious stones and valuable watches and watch movements. Five of the vaults have been opened, and they disclose practically no damage to the contents.

The firm have necessarily had considerable trouble and annoyance in consequence of Christmas goods purchased being in the burned building. With commendable enterprise they have adjusted satisfactorily all of these purchases, however, in some cases giving substitutes for the originals, in others returning the money.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 29th December 1897

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E. J. Dorn of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co., accompanied by his wife, is spending a three weeks' vacation at the northern lakes. G. C. Bohannon of the Jaccard firm has returned from Excelsior Springs, Mo.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th July 1917

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The police on Friday were assisting post office inspectors in solving the mysterious disappearance on July 14 of a diamond ring, valued at $1,000, the property of the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. On that day the ring was placed in a parcel, registered at the post office and consigned to a customer at Monroe City, Mo. It failed to reach its consignee.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd August 1922

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F. L. Curtis, for many years a trusted employe of the Mermod-Jaccard Jewelry Co., St. Louis, Mo., died at the residence of his parents last Thursday morning. Deceased had been suffering with catarrh of the bowels for some time past.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 14th December 1892

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The Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co., St. Louis, filed last week a statement of increase of capital stock from $400,000 to $500,000.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 6th May 1891

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Calder B. Vaughan of La Grange, Ga., recently announced that he plans to open a jewelry and gift store in that city early in the fall. Mr. Vaughan has had extensive experience in the jewelry business. He has been associated with such leading jewelry firms as Maier & Berkele, Inc., Atlanta, Ca.; Frank Herschede Co., Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio; Mermod-Jaccard-King Jewelry Co., Inc., St. Louis, Mo., and the Reed & Barton Corp., Taunton, Mass.

Source: Jewelers' Circular Keystone - August 1950

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