Crosby & Dibblee

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The firm of Crosby & Dibblee was a commercial mercantile house operating in San Francisco from ca. 1852 to 1862; early San Francisco city directories show it occupying a building at 111 Battery. There the partners in the firm served as importers of goods, participating in the boom years for the establishment of trade in the expanding port city.

Charles W. Crosby and Albert Dibblee both arrived in San Francisco in 1850. Crosby was from Roxburg, Massachusetts, and had worked as a dry-goods clerk in Boston. After accumulating a fortune during his San Francisco shipping years, he relocated to New York City in the 1860s and became a prominent member of the New York Cotton Exchange.

Albert Dibblee was born in upstate New York and worked for the State Bank of New York before emigrating to California in 1850. After establishing himself in the commercial shipping business in San Francisco, he ranched and was president of the Giant Powder Company until his death in 1895. Dibblee was active in civic affairs beginning with his participation in the Vigilance Committee of 1856. He was influential in the People's Reform Party and held various offices in the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce over the years.

From the description of Company correspondence, 1855. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 58927441

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