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- The classic packaging portrays one of the worlds most famous trademarks - two bearded gentlemen. Known for generations as Trade and Mark Smith, the brothers did in fact really exist. Their names were William (Trade) and Andrew (Mark) Smith.
- Their father, one James Smith, had moved to Poughkeepsie, New York from St. Armand, Quebec in 1847 to establish a restaurant. The legend of the story of the birth of the first cough drop tells of a peddler stopping at the Smith restaurant and giving James the formula for the cough candy. James believed that the drops were needed in the cold, windswept Hudson Valley and began making them on his kitchen stove.
- The drops were a big success and demand for them grew quickly. By 1852, advertising began to appear in the Poughkeepsie paper. It invited "all afflicted with hoarseness, cough or colds" to test it.
- Active in the business from the start, the brothers helped mix the secret recipe and sold drops on the streets. Upon James' death in 1866, the boys inherited the fast growing business and the company officially became known as Smith Brothers.
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