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He was born in Newry, County Down, Ireland on c.1854, where he went to school in Newry.
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Samuel Kirkpatrick
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He founded Kirkpatrick Brothers Coffee & Spice Mills in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Kirkpatrick spent five years with a wholesale food merchant learning the ropes, after graduating from Walton College, in Liverpool, England.
Foreign some years, he emigrated to the United States, working for tea wholesalers in both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Kirkpatrick"s entree to success came in 1876 with his removal to California, where he worked in two large fruit canneries in San Francisco, California. lieutenant seams that, in 1878, Kirkpatrick probably arrived in New Zealand, and through 1879, he worked as a salesperson for merchants and commission agents Renshaw, Denniston and Company, in Dunedin.
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New Zealand