Alling and Cory was a privately owned printing paper and packaging distributor headquartered in

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, United States. Founded by Elihu F. Marshall in 1819, the company was the first paper merchant in the U.S. The company remained independent until 1996 when it was bought by

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. Assumed to be among its employees were two

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and other United States statesmen. At its height, ''Alling and Cory'' owned more than 20 branch offices from

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. At one point, it was the United States' oldest privately owned company in continuous operation. In 1910–1911, they built the

Alling & Cory Buffalo Warehouse Alling & Cory Buffalo Warehouse is a historic warehouse building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It consists of a six-story, "L" shaped, former paper warehouse building built in 1910-1911 for the Alling & Cory company of Rochester, ...

and in 2010, it was listed on the

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. It merged with Antietam Paper Co. in 1997. After the

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acquisition of Union Camp in 1999, Alling and Cory was folded into

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. Most of its original branches remain open.

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