posted 08-03-2007 03:24 PM            

Does anyone have any examples to share?

Also see:

• Bixler's Jewelers
  
• Bixler's merges with Avalon, Mauer and Bash
  [nationaljeweler.com/nj/independent-retailers/a/~19800-Oldest-jeweler-Bixlers-merges-with - link gone from the Internet]
  

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  Oldest jeweler Bixler's merges with Avalon, Mauer and Bash

  Nov 13, 2006

  Easton, Pa.—Bixler's Jewelers, which bills itself as the oldest retail jeweler in America, is merging operations with Avalon, Mauer and Bash of Whitehall Township.

  The new entity will retain the Bixler's name and sell jewelry out of two stores. According to published reports, Avalon's store near the Lehigh Valley Mall was converted to Bixler's on Friday. Bixler's store in Easton will remain open, while another location in South Whitehall Township is scheduled to close by the end of the year.

  Bixler CEO Joyce Mitman Welken will remain in the position.

  "Both of our stores had strengths that didn't overlap too much," she told The Express Times. "We thought, what a great thing—let's combine our strengths."

  She said no jobs would be lost as a result of the merger, which was completed last Tuesday.

  Revolutionary War veteran and clock maker Christian Bixler III founded Bixler's in 1785. The store opened in its Centre Square location in Easton in 1925. Avalon began operations in 1981.

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posted 08-03-2007 06:16 PM            

Christian Bixler (18 JUN 1763-29 Jan 1840) m 26 Apr 1789 Catherine Opp
-- William (21 May 1793-8 Feb 1850) m abt 1820 Sophia Tolan
---- Jacob Elwood (1849-1891)

The direct line stops there; Jacob's only son Floyd became a dry goods merchant. After Jacob's death, the store business was taken up by one of the descendant's of William's four brothers.