Here are a couple of online sites re: Baker and Hamilton-- The online San Francisco Directory for 1878: http://www.zpub.com/sf50/sf/hgtel.htm Baker & Hamilton, Hdwe, 7-19 Front n 1918, Pacific Hardware & Steel merged with Baker & Hamilton (a firm that had been selling innovative agricultural tools since the Gold Rush) to create a company known as Baker, Hamilton & Pacific. This company, whose name later reverted to Baker & Hamilton, occupied the building into the early 1980's.http://www.bhsquare.com/bhp/bh/history.htm Have fun with your search- Carolyn Karen Conley wrote: > Hi List: > I am looking for any information at all on a Nicholas Ott and wife, > Anna, maiden surname unknown. This couple adopted my grandmother, > probably around 1889 or 1890, after the death of her natural parents. > I have Nichlas Ott in the San Francisco City Directory for the years > 1889-91. His occupation was listed as a dreyer and his place of > employment was Baker & Hamilton. Does anyone know anything at all > about this company? Any information at all will be most appreciated. > I would really like to learn more about my grandmother. I am hopefull > that some day I may be able to locate her adoption records. I have > been told that her maiden name was Ward before she was adopted by the > Otts and that she had a young brother named Harry who committed suicide > near to Calvery Cemetery not long after his parents death. > Karen Conley > klconley@webtv.net