Lanman & Kemp.

Lanman & Kemp was a multi-generational family firm of wholesale druggists in New York City.

The firm was founded at 313 Pearl Street in 1808 by Robert J. Murray, a Quaker merchant and member of the family for which Murray Hill is named. He was succeeded by his brother Lindley Murray in the 1820s. In 1835, Lindley Murray took David T. Lanman. of a prominent Norwich, Conn., familiy, as a partner under the name of Murray & Lanman at 69 Water Street. Murray died in 1847, and the business was continued at the same address by Lanman alone until about 1853 when George Kemp, a young Irish immigrant, was admitted to the partnership under the style of David T. Lanman & Co. It became D.T. Lanman & Kemp in 1858 and Lanman & Kemp in 1861. Lanman died in 1866, but the business was continued by George Kemp and his family under the old name. It was incorporated as Lanman & Kemp, Inc., in 1920 and moved to suburban New Jersey in 1957. Several of Lanman & Kemp's traditional products are still produced and marketed by Lanman & Kemp-Barclay & Co., Inc. in 2006.

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