1. prosecution (n.) 1  the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior. 2  the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant. 3  the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion.
Beginning with a single bakery opened by Godfrey Keebler Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1853, Keebler has maintained a tradition of baking cookies with care, passion, and an abundance of quality ingredients.
Kiehl's original store, located at 3rd Avenue and 13th Street in the East Village of Manhattan, occupies the same space as when it was founded in 1851. The site of Kiehl's location is known as Pear Tree Corner for the pear tree Peter Stuyvesant, governor of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, planted there in 1647.