Hungarian immigrant William Feldman got his start selling feathers for mattresses from a horse-drawn wagon in the late 1890s. His feather-mattress business quickly evolved into a secondhand furniture store with a special emphasis on antique beds. In the early twentieth century, Feldman had his own furniture workshop for manufacturing reproduction antiques to sell with the genuine artifacts in his store. Feldman’s Antique Emporium is still in operation, now in the fourth generation under the name James H. Cohen & Sons.