W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining and Molasses Company. Office of the Vice President.

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The W.J. McCahan Sugar Refinery of Philadelphia was founded in 1892. In 1920, the company was purchased by members of the Czarnikow-Rionda Company. The company was reorganized under the title, W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining and Molasses Company. The president of McCahan for most of the 1920s and 1930s was Manuel Enrique Rionda, nephew of Manuel Rionda y Polledo and president of Czarnikow-Rionda. In 1944 the firm was sold to the American Sugar Refining Company and renamed the Philadelphia Refining Company.

From the description of Correspondence files, 1928-1945. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 23433016

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Role Title Holding Repository
Relation Name
associatedWith Babst, Earl D., 1870-1967. person
associatedWith Bunker, Ellsworth, 1894-1984. person
associatedWith Crosby, Lawrence. person
associatedWith Havemeyer, Horace, 1886-1956. person
associatedWith Place, Louis V., Jr. person
associatedWith Sugar Institute. corporateBody
associatedWith Sugar Research Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith Sullivan & Cromwell. corporateBody
Place Name Admin Code Country
Cuba
United States
Subject
Reciprocity (Commerce)
Restraint of trade
Sugar
Sugar refinery workers
Tariff on sugar
Occupation
Activity

Corporate Body

Active 1928

Active 1945

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