Russell & Co., Guangzhou, China, Records 1812-1894 (bulk 1819-1840)

Newberry, W. L. 1804-1868

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Russell, Samuel, 1789-ca. 1862.

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Russell family.

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Alsop, J. W. (Joseph Wright), 1804-approximately 1878

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Forbes, R. B. 1804-1889.

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Hubbard, S. D. 1799-1855

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Russell, George O.

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Baring Brothers & Co. (London, England)

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Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the John and Francis Baring Company by Francis Baring, with his older brother John Baring as a mostly silent partner. They were sons of John (né Johann) Baring, wool trader of Exeter, born in Bremen, Germany. The company began in offices off Cheapside in London, and within a few years moved to larger quarters in Mincing Lane. Barings gradually diversified from wool into many other commodities, providing financial services for the rapid growth of international ...

Russell & Co. (1818-1877)

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Russell & Company (Chinese: 旗昌洋行; pinyin: Qíchāng Yángháng) was the largest American trading house of the mid-19th century in China. The firm specialised in trading tea, silk and opium and was eventually involved in the shipping trade. In 1818, Samuel Russell was approached by Providence merchants Edward C. Carrington, Cyrus Butler and Benjamin and Thomas Hoppin to be an employee of their new resident commission firm in Canton (now referred to as Guangzhou) under the name of Samuel Russell & ...

Heard, Augustine, 1785-1868

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Augustine Heard (March 30, 1785 – September 14, 1868) was an American entrepreneur, businessman and trader, and founder of the Augustine Heard & Co. firm in China. Augustine Heard was born into a wealthy merchant family of Ipswich, Massachusetts. His father, John Heard (1744-1834), had made his fortune by trading with the West Indies, and his half-brother Daniel (1778-1801) also worked in foreign trade with the West Indies and China. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Augus...

Hubbard, Gurdon Saltonstall, 1802-1886

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Chabanee died ca. 1869. Further information on him is not available. Melander & Bro. Photographers were located at 208 East Ohio, on the corner of Clark Street, in Chicago. They specialized in portraits and landscapes. From the description of Note on Indian Chief Chabanee, 190u. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 43598666 ...

Russell, Edward Augustus, 1797-

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Petersburg, Virginia, merchant. From the description of Papers, 1820-1824 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647804920 ...

Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804-1868

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Estate distribution schedules were produced to make an assessment of the worth of the Newberry estate and to divide the estate evenly between Walter Newberry's heirs and the new "free public library" (Newberry Library). A Cook County court decision determined that the estate would be assessed as of the death date (Dec. 9, 1885) of Newberry's widow, Julia Butler Newberry. From the description of Distribution schedules, 1885-1892. (Newberry Library). WorldCat r...

William Perkins & Company

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Clarke & Company

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Ammidon, Philip

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Claude Daniel Crommelin & Sons

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Wetmore, Samuel, ca. 1813-1885

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John P. Cushing, William Perkins & Company

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Wetmore, William, 1776-

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Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848

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John Jacob Astor organized the American Fur Company in 1808, and the Pacific Fur Company in 1810. In the spring of 1811 he established a post at Astoria on the Columbia River, but sold it to British interests in 1813. By 1817 Astor had gained control of all the Mississippi Valley posts of the Northwest and Southwest Companies. The Columbia Fur Company, one of Astor's major competitors, was absorbed in 1827. By 1834 Astor tired of the fur business and sold all of his interests. From t...

Russell, George O.

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Ward & Bartholomew

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Edward Carrington & Company

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Russell family.

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Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815

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Butler, Cyrus, 1767-1849

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George Douglas & Company

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Russell, John A., active 1838-1846

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Town, Ithiel, 1784-1844

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Ithiel Town was an architect and bridge builder. He studied with Asher Benjamin in Boston and was a partner with Alexander J. Davis for a few years. Town was a leader in the Greek and Gothic Revival styles in American architecture. But it was his profits from bridge building that enabled him to amass the largest library of art, architecture, and engineering books and prints in the United States. He began to sell off his library before his death in 1844. From the description of Auctio...

Alsop, J. W. (Joseph Wright), 1804-

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Hubbard, S. D. (Samuel Dickinson), 1799-1855

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Samuel Hubbard was the Honorary Curator of Archaeology of the Oakland Museum in the 1920s. He was also the leader of the Doheny Scientific Expedition to Havasu Canyon in 1924. From the description of Their fighting ancestors, 1927. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122446516 ...

Low, William Henry, 1816-1845

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Hull & Griswold

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American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Russell Manufacturing Company

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The company, located in Middletown, Conn., was organized by Samuel Russell in 1834, taking over the mill and machinery started by Spaulding and Collins in 1833. Russell was an innovator in the use of power looms for producing elastic web. It used cotton, jute, silk and India rubber to make belting, boot web, suspenders, and surcingles for horses. By the end of the 19th century the company operated seven plants in and around Middletown, including the Falls, Starr, Montgomery, Higganum and Rockfal...

Benjamin & Thomas C. Hoppins (Firm)

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Forbes, John Murray, 1771-1831

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Lawyer and diplomat. From the description of John Murray Forbes papers, 1817-1830. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450685 ...

Russell, Samuel, 1789-

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Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889

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Houqua (Trading company)

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