Kasan and Song, 1909 — Huntingdon County Information Page

13. VIEW SHOWING CORNER OF JEFFERSON STREET AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE LOOKING WEST, SHOWING CONRAIL FREIGHT STATION AT FAR RIGHT, HOTEL IN CENTER AND STORES - Town of Mount UnionLibrary of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record. No known copyright restrictions. pa2822.photos.038897p

Mount Union in 1909 was more worldly than people imagine. Alley Kasan came to America in 1901 and by 1903 opened a grocery on West Shirley Street. Ye Hing Song, described in the town's own history book as a laundryman, kept his shop in the Welch building at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Jefferson Street. Both men appear in Charles Welch's 1909 History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township as businessmen of the community, their livelihoods sketched with the same respect given to carpenters and merchants born here. A grocer from a village near Beirut. A laundryman from China. Neighbors at the corner.

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