Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsImportersRetailersHistoryHenry Taft was born Grisha Tafypolsky in 1879 in Russia. He emigrated to Australia in 1906 where he founded a stationery business in Collins Street and specialized as a fountain pen retailer and repairer. Taft was joined in partnership by his brother, Misha, who arrived in Australia from the United States three years later and eventually assisted the rest of his family of seventeen to come to Australia. The Taft family also established Merino Knitting Mills and Hillcrest Trading Co. The stationery business continues at the same address, though under different ownership.
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