Forbes family.
Biographical notes:
The Forbes family of Boston and Milton, Mass. was one of the most important families of Boston merchants engaged in the China trade. John Murray Forbes (1771-1831) was United States consul at Hamburg and Copenhagen (1801-1819) and United States agent at Buenos Aires (1819-1831). His nephews Thomas, Robert Bennet, and John Murray Forbes were connected with Perkins and Copmany and later Russell and Company in the China trade. John Murray Forbes (1813-1898) was later involved in railroad development in the west. His grandson W. Cameron Forbes (1870-1959) was a partner in J.M. Forbes and Company and governor-general of the Philippines (1909-1913).
From the description of Forbes family business records, 1753-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269592453
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Subjects:
- Executors and administrators
- Decedents' estates
- Diplomatic and consular service, American
- Export marketing
- Marketing
- Merchants
- Mineral industries
- Opium trade
- Shipping
- Street-railroads
- Transportation
- Trusts and trustees
Occupations:
- Capitalists and financiers
Places:
- Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
- Milton (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Argentina (as recorded)
- Denmark (as recorded)
- Germany (as recorded)
- China (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Philippines (as recorded)
- Massachusetts (as recorded)
