Charles Fox Hovey (1807–1859) was a businessman in Boston, Massachusetts who established C.F. Hovey and Co., a department store on Summer Street. Through the years Hovey's business partners included Washington Williams, James H. Bryden, Richard C. Greenleaf and John Chandler. The Johnson family (Fidelity Investments Edward C. Johnson II) got their start at C.F. Hovey and Co. with Samuel Johnson Jr. In 1947 Jordan Marsh absorbed Hovey's.
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1807
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1859 (aged 51)
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