Ely Walker Lofts (originally known as the Ely and Walker Dry Goods Company Building) is a building located at 1520 Washington Avenue in
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, whic ...
.
In 1857,
David Davis Walker, a member of the
Bush family
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, arrived in St. Louis from Illinois. (Walker would become the great-grandfather of future president
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker BushSince around 2000, he has been usually called George H. W. Bush, Bush Senior, Bush 41 or Bush the Elder to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president from 2001 to 2009; p ...
and first cousin of
Supreme Court Justice
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and Independent
U.S. Senator from Illinois David Davis, a pivotal figure in the disputed
presidential election of 1876
The following elections occurred in the year 1876.
Europe
* 1876 Dalmatian parliamentary election
* 1876 French legislative election
* 1876 Leominster by-election
* 1876 Spanish general election
North America Canada
* 1876 Prince Edward Isla ...
.) In 1880, he founded and Frank Ely founded Ely, Walker & Company, which became a leading dry goods wholesaler west of the
Mississippi River
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and was acquired by