H.M. Voorhees & Bro. was an American department store that was located in Trenton, New Jersey. It was founded in 1897 by Harvey McLean VOORHEES (American, 1866-1938), who later formed a partnership with his younger brother Edmund D. VOORHEES. The store specialized in women's clothing and accessories. Mr. VOORHEES started his mercantile career as a boy at D. C. Perrine in Freehold in 1882, in 1884 he got a position at C. I. Baumgartner, who was then conducting a store at 19 East State street, Trenton. After 13 years at this store in 1897 Harvey VOORHEES started his own retail business. After the younger brother joined his business in 1901, in 1904 the department store moved to the more spacious place at 113 East State street. Among the interesting achievements of this department store was, for example, the release of what we would now call a "comic book" H.M. Voorhees and Bros. Merry Little Men, a story about bunch boys getting into adventures and troubles. Each little man got a short, few line verse about their activities, like the first smoked his dad's cigar and got sick, or the second got lost at sea, and the fifth ate until he could not anymore. On the back cover was a poem that described the various products that H. M. Voorhees and Bros. offered, like clothes for boys until fourteen, ready-to-wear and baby clothes. After Mr. VOORHEES' death in 1938, the department store was acquired by the store next door Nevius Bros., opened in 1900 by Albert and George NEVIUS. Since late 1930s or early 1940s until it's closure in the 1970s, this joint department store existed under the name Nevius-Voorhees.