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- catalog abstract "The Forbes family business records contain an enormous amount of material pertaining to the one of the most important families of Boston merchants engaged in the China trade during the nineteenth century. The collection consists mainly of account books, letter books, and loose correspondence relating to the China trade beginning with brothers Thomas Tunno, Robert Bennet, and John Murray Forbes and later with Paul Siemen Forbes and Francis Blackwell Forbes. The correspondence and account books document commercial trade activities of Forbes family members as partners in the firm Russell & Co. Business partners and correspondents include Augustine Heard, Houqua, John Perkins Cushing, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Abraham Ellerman, Augustine Heard, Perkins and Company, Baring Brothers & Co., J. & T.H. Perkins & Sons, Bryant & Sturgis, Purdon and Wiggin, and Walker and Wren . Also included is correspondence of John M. Forbes while serving as United States consul at Hamburg and Copenhagen, and United States agent at Buenos Aires. Forbes family members were closely connected to Shewan-Tomes Company, Perkins& Company, Russell & Co., and the Shanghai Navigation Company. Later materials relate to the private banking investment firm J.M. Forbes & Co. consisting of financial records, estate and trust accounts, and the records of companies that J.M. Forbes & Co. held significant shares of. The material related to J.M. Forbes & Co. documents the extensive administration and redistribution of wealth made by Forbes family members during the China trade and the establishment of trusts in order to ensure continued prosperity. Also included is material relating to W. Cameron Forbes consisting of correspondence, financial and legal papers, and material relating to his appointment as governor-general of the Philippines, interests in Forbes-Perkins Company, and commissioner of the Massachusetts Street Railway Commission. The collection includes original and copied documents and claims of the ship Macedonian pertaining to two separate seizures in 1819 and 1820 by the Chilean Navy. Correspondence and other documents relate to efforts for recompense of stolen monies and goods.".
- catalog contributor b754153.
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- catalog contributor b754167.
- catalog contributor b754168.
- catalog coverage "China Commerce United States.".
- catalog coverage "Milton (Mass.)".
- catalog coverage "Philippines Government.".
- catalog coverage "Philippines Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "United States Commerce China.".
- catalog date "1658".
- catalog description "Additional papers of John Murray Forbes and W. Cameron Forbes are in Houghton Library.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HBS.Baker.EAD:bak00124".
- catalog description "Forbes Family Business Records, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.".
- catalog description "Later materials relate to the private banking investment firm J.M. Forbes & Co. consisting of financial records, estate and trust accounts, and the records of companies that J.M. Forbes & Co. held significant shares of. The material related to J.M. Forbes & Co. documents the extensive administration and redistribution of wealth made by Forbes family members during the China trade and the establishment of trusts in order to ensure continued prosperity. Also included is material relating to W. Cameron Forbes consisting of correspondence, financial and legal papers, and material relating to his appointment as governor-general of the Philippines, interests in Forbes-Perkins Company, and commissioner of the Massachusetts Street Railway Commission. The collection includes original and copied documents and claims of the ship Macedonian pertaining to two separate seizures in 1819 and 1820 by the Chilean Navy. Correspondence and other documents relate to efforts for recompense of stolen monies and goods.".
- catalog description "See also: Manuscripts in Baker Library (4th ed., 1978), Entries 127, 539, 644, 903.".
- catalog description "The Forbes family business records contain an enormous amount of material pertaining to the one of the most important families of Boston merchants engaged in the China trade during the nineteenth century. The collection consists mainly of account books, letter books, and loose correspondence relating to the China trade beginning with brothers Thomas Tunno, Robert Bennet, and John Murray Forbes and later with Paul Siemen Forbes and Francis Blackwell Forbes. The correspondence and account books document commercial trade activities of Forbes family members as partners in the firm Russell & Co. Business partners and correspondents include Augustine Heard, Houqua, John Perkins Cushing, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Abraham Ellerman, Augustine Heard, Perkins and Company, Baring Brothers & Co., J. & T.H. Perkins & Sons, Bryant & Sturgis, Purdon and Wiggin, and Walker and Wren . Also included is correspondence of John M. Forbes while serving as United States consul at Hamburg and Copenhagen, and United States agent at Buenos Aires. Forbes family members were closely connected to Shewan-Tomes Company, Perkins& Company, Russell & Co., and the Shanghai Navigation Company.".
- catalog description "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, Copenhagen, and Stetin (1801-1819) and United States agent at Buenos Aires (1820-1831). His nephews Thomas, Robert Bennet, and John Murray Forbes were connected with Perkins and Company 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).".
- catalog description "There is a letter book of W. Cameron Forbes, 1892-1901 in the Stone and Webster Collection, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.".
- catalog extent "57 linear ft.".
- catalog hasFormat "Volumes F-5, F-6, F-7, and F-8 are also available in an electronic version.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Volumes F-5, F-6, F-7, and F-8 are also available in an electronic version.".
- catalog isPartOf "Women, Enterprise & Society. bak".
- catalog issued "1658".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog relation "Volumes F-5, F-6, F-7, and F-8 are also available in an electronic version.".
- catalog spatial "Argentina.".
- catalog spatial "China Commerce United States.".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog spatial "Denmark.".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts.".
- catalog spatial "Milton (Mass.)".
- catalog spatial "Philippines Government.".
- catalog spatial "Philippines Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "United States Commerce China.".
- catalog subject "Augustine Heard & Company.".
- catalog subject "Baring Brothers & Co.".
- catalog subject "Brazil Land, Cattle, and Packing Company.".
- catalog subject "Bryant & Sturgis.".
- catalog subject "Decedents' estates Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog subject "Diplomatic and consular service, American Argentina.".
- catalog subject "Diplomatic and consular service, American Denmark.".
- catalog subject "Diplomatic and consular service, American Germany.".
- catalog subject "Executors and administrators Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog subject "Export marketing Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "Forbes and Ellerman.".
- catalog subject "Forbes family.".
- catalog subject "Forbes-Perkins Company.".
- catalog subject "J.M. Forbes & Co. (Boston, Mass.).".
- catalog subject "Macedonian (Ship).".
- catalog subject "Marketing.".
- catalog subject "Massachusetts. Street railway investigation commission.".
- catalog subject "Merchants China.".
- catalog subject "Merchants Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "Opium trade China.".
- catalog subject "Perkins and Company.".
- catalog subject "Purdon and Wiggin.".
- catalog subject "Russell & Co.".
- catalog subject "Shanghai Navigation Company.".
- catalog subject "Shewan-Tomes Company.".
- catalog subject "Shipping.".
- catalog subject "Street-railroads Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "Transportation.".
- catalog subject "Trusts and trustees Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog subject "Walker and Wren.".
- catalog title "Forbes family business records, 1658-1968 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Account books. ftamc".
- catalog type "Diaries. ftamc".
- catalog type "Letters. ftamc".
- catalog type "Logbooks. ftamc".
- catalog type "collection".