Name Samuel Kirkpatrick | ||
Samuel Kirkpatrick (c.1854 – 21 May 1925) was a New Zealand businessman. He founded Kirkpatrick Bros. Coffee & Spice Mills in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was born in Newry, County Down, Ireland on c.1854, where he went to school in Newry. Kirkpatrick spent five years with a wholesale food merchant learning the ropes, after graduating from Walton College, in Liverpool, England. For some years, he emigrated to the U. S., 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. It seems 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 Co., in Dunedin.