Henry Hausmann worked for a brief time as a silversmith in Adolphe Himmel’s silver manufactory. He took over that business after Himmel’s death in 1877, but a year later, Hausmann also passed away, leaving the business to his wife, Theresa. She ran the silver manufactory, which produced solid silver and silver-plated ware, including patented suspender buckles, and was joined in the business by her sons, Louis and Gabriel, in the early 1890s. T. Hausmann & Sons, which became known simply as Hausmann’s by the 1920s, occupied a beautiful building on Baronne Street. The company took over A. B. Griswold & Co. in 1924, becoming the third successor to Hyde & Goodrich.