The wholesale grocery house now conducted under the firm style of Miner, Read & Tullock was established in 1842 by E. J. Stout, who engaged in handling raw sugar, molasses, flour and bulk goods on State street. In 1860 he admitted E. P. Yale as a partner, under the firm style of Stout & Yale, and in 1868 the firm name was changed to Stout, Yale & Company, at which time Edward Bryan became financially interested in the business. In 1870 Mr. Stout withdrew, leading to the adoption of the style of Yale & Bryan, and in 1882 this was changed to Yale, Bryan & Company, Ralph J. Miner and Samuel H. Read being admitted to a partnership. In 1892 Mr. Yale withdrew and the firm name of Bryan, Miner & Read was then assumed. The death of Mr. Bryan occurred July 10, 1899, and on the 1st of January, 1900, Mr. Garrette became a partner and the name was changed to Miner, Read & Garrette. In 1907 Gilbert Tullock was given an interest in the business and on the 1st of January, 1910, Mr. Garrette withdrew and the firm name was changed to Miner, Read & Tullock, under which style the. business has since been continued. Mr. Miner died February 20, 1916, but the name continues the same. In 1885 the firm of Yale, Bryan & Company removed from Upper State street to the present location at Nos. 91 to 115 State street, where they erected a building four stories in height and sixty by ninety feet. Three years later, owing to the increase in their business, they erected an addition of four stories, forty by ninety feet, and purchased an adjoining building, twenty by ninty feet, from the McKennan estate. In 1907 they built the building that is now occupied by the present office. It is twenty-seven by ninety feet in dimensions, so that there is now a combined store space of three hundred and seventy-five thousand cubic feet in the New Haven warehouses. In connection with this business three branch stores are maintained, one being located at New Britain, another at Meriden and the third in Bridge-port. The New Britain store was established in 1903, the Meriden, in 1905 and the Bridgeport, in 1907. The first has a warehouse storage capacity of one hundred and fifteen thousand cubic feet, the one at Meriden of one hundred and seventy-five thousand cubic feet and the Bridgeport establishment has two hundred and twenty thousand cubic feet of warehouse storage capacity. The business has increased five hundred per cent in the past ten years and theirs is probably the largest wholesale grocery house in New England. The business methods employed by the firm throughout the existence of the house have always been such as would bear the closest investigation and scrutiny, and along the legitimate lines of trade they have won a patronage that now makes their undertaking one of the foremost commercial interests of New England.