1766 and went on to become a wealthy meat-packer and business owned in Troy, New York. It was his government contract supplying provisions to U.S. troops during the War of 1812 that Uncle Sam ...

Uncle Sam’s flagship in (of all places) Toronto began by buying their new and secondhand military apparel straight from government surplus warehouses—and sometimes straight from discharged ...

You first might notice large displays of maps of New York State geology ... The clay part of the story starts with Troy’s own Samuel Wilson — Uncle Sam to you. In 1790, decades before he ...