[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In his early youth he was a student at Mount Pleasant Academy, but left home and school at the age of fourteen, and found a position as clerk in a grocery store. He remained here for three years, and then entered a dry goods store, but two years later he commenced business on his own account, by opening a store at Sing Sing. Shortly after he sold out, and removed to New York, where he had an interest in the mills of William D. Man gam, son of his uncle Stephen, who was the founder of one of the oldest Produce and Grain Commission Houses now doing business in the city. William D. Mangam died in t866, and Mr. Mangam succeeded to the entire busi-ness, which he has carried on at the old stand till the present time. The following statement from the Commercial World shows the extent of the busi-ness. It is proper to state that since its publication, Mr. Mangam has become the lessee of half of Pier No. (I, North River, and two floating elevators.