James Murray Forbes papers, 1868-1957.

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James Murray Forbes papers, 1868-1957.

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Personal papers of James M. Forbes, an agent for the China trade firm Russell and Company in China and Boston in the 1860s, and later an officer for several railroad and financial companies; resident of Boston and Milton, Mass., and Dark Harbor, Me. Papers include correspondence; financial papers; estate papers; genealogical notes on the Forbes, Bowditch, Bennet, Murray, Smith and related families; writings, including memoirs and diaries; diary (1917) of Edith Forbes Perkins; and Keechong Club records (1879-88). Other persons represented in the papers include Alice B., Mary B., Dorothy M., and Allan Forbes.

7 boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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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 & ...

Forbes, Dorothy Murray, 1881-1944.

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Bennet family.

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Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955

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Keechong Club (Boston, Mass.)

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Murray family.

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Forbes, Mary Bowditch, 1878-1961.

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Forbes, James Murray, 1845-1937.

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Bowditch family.

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Smith family.

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Perkins, Edith Forbes, 1843-1925

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Forbes, Alice Francis Bowditch, 1848-1929.

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Forbes family.

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