Emmons
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Media | Date | Vessel | Place | Related Places | Inscription/Marks | Subject | Notes | Archive Number |
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| 1 |  | Emmons, George F. Mishipman, April 1, 1828. Passed Mid, June 14, 1834. Lieutenant, Feb 25, 1841. Commander, Jan 28, 1856. Captain, feb 7, 1863. Commodore, Spet 20, 1868. Rear Admiral, Nov 25, 1872. Retired, August 23, 1873. Emmons, Geo. Foster, 1811-1884. Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy. Took part in Wilkes exploring expediion and in the Mexcian War. Commanded the HATTERAS in the Civil War. Commanded OSSIPEE which took commissioners to Alaska to formally claim it for the U.S. | Image of George Foster Emmons in Navy uniform, with beard. | P0005/-#U-PP0138 | ||||||
| 2 |  | 1883-1931 | J. G. Emmons (Side wheel steamer : 1854). | "J. G. Emmons"/1854/ex "John Birkbeck" | Broadside view of the J. G. Emmons underway with passengers. | MS0091/03.01-27#087 | ||||
| 3 | No image URL. | Emmons (Destroyer : DD-457). | Contains black and white photographs. | MS0817/01-12.126 | ||||||
| 4 |  | 6/17/1895 | J. G. Emmons (Side wheel steamer : 1854). | Harlem River (N.Y.). | J.G. Emmons; 1350 | Steamboats–New York (State)–New York.; Paddle steamers–New York (State)–New York. | Shows a starboard side view of a side wheel steamer making way. Research shows this scene to be set along the Harlem River in Upper Manhattan. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Jun 17 [1895]" | MS0094/01-#1350 | ||
| 5 |  | 5/10/1895 | J. G. Emmons (Side wheel steamer : 1854). | J.G. Emmons; 1251 | Steamboats–United States.; Paddle steamers–United States. | Shows a starboard side view of a side wheel steamer moored at a pier. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "May 10 [1895]" | MS0094/01-#1251 | |||
| 6 | No image URL. | Emmons (Destroyer : DD-457). | Destroyers (Warships)–United States.; World War, 1939-1945–Naval operations, American. | Cover title. | LB35324 | |||||
| 7 |  | 4/6/1945 | United States. Army–Officers.; United States. Army–Medals, badges, decorations, etc. | Col. Lee Garnet Day, ASN 0515305, home, Westocrnwall, Conn., Oversea Supply Officer at Norfolk Army Base, HRPE, Norfolk, Va., pins the Distinguished Unit Badge on Pfc. Emmons C. Hagdon, ASN 36170374,home, Michigan, Maintenance Company at NAB. Photo taken at the Army Day Parade held at Norfolk Army Base, HRPE, Norfolk, Va. Photo taken for publicity purposes. | Military decorations–Virginia–Norfolk.; Military ceremonies, honors, and salutes–Virginia–Norfolk. | Shows an officer pinning a badge on the uniform of an enlisted man in an outdoor ceremony. | P0003/01-#F-13330 | |||
| 8 |  | 4/30/1896 | Belgravia (Screw bark : 1881).; J. G. Emmons (Side wheel steamer : 1854). | Belgravia; 2066 | Steamboats–United States.; Paddle steamers–United States. | Shows a port side view of a cargo ship full of passengers, a paddle steamer has pulled alongside her. Possibly she is there to unload the passengers. This negative has some chipping and cracks in the emulsion. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Belgravis (Anchor line) JG Emmons", "Apl 30 '96" | MS0094/01-#2066 | |||
| 9 |  | 6/24/1897 | Hazel Kirke (Side wheel steamer : 1881).; J. G. Emmons (Side wheel steamer : 1854).; R. W. Burke (Steamboat : 1873). | Hazel Kirke - J.G. Emmons; 2881 | Steamboats–United States.; Paddle steamers–United States.; Tugboats–United States. | Shows a stern side view of two tugs approaching a pier where two paddle steamers are docked. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "June 24, 1897" | MS0094/01-#2881 | |||
| 10 |  | 1883-1931 | City of Key West (Side wheel steamer : 1897).; J. G. Emmons (Side wheel steamer : 1854).; Fairfield (Side wheel steamer : 1906). | At Gregory's Yard, Perth Amboy, N.J., Sedgwick Neg. No. 2021, "City of Key West", "J.G. Emmons", "Fairfield" | Shipyards–New Jersey–Perth Amboy.; Steamboats–New Jersey–Perth Amboy.; Paddle steamers–New Jersey–Perth Amboy.; Derelicts. | This photograph shows the hulls of several vessels in varying states of being broken up. In the background three named vessels can be seen. | MS0091/03.02-01#0605 | |||
| 11 |  | 6/17/1895 | Harlem (Side wheel steamer : 1872).; Eloise (Steamboat : 1881).; J. G. Emmons (Side wheel steamer : 1854). | Harlem River (N.Y.). | Harlem; 1349 | Steamboats–New York (State)–New York.; Paddle steamers–New York (State)–New York.; Bridges–New York (State)–New York. | Shows a starboard side view of the bow of a side wheel steamer making way. Research shows this scene to be set along the Harlem River in Upper Manhattan. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Jun 17 [1895]" | MS0094/01-#1349 | ||
| 12 |  | 1883-1931 | Gregory's Yard,/Perth Amboy, New/Jersey-; Painting by S. Ward Stanton/Steamboat "Drew"; "City of Key West";/1865 ex "City of Richmond";/"J.G. Emmons", 1854, ex "John Birk-/Beck"; "Waterbury, (?) 1867, ex/"Laura" | Copy negative of a painting of Gregory's Yard and steamships. The steamships featured in this painting are Drew, City of Key West, J. G. Emmons, and Waterbury. | MS0091/03.01-23#125 | |||||
| 13 | No image URL. | Ocean liners.; Steamboat lines–Pacific Ocean | Pacific liners, 1927-72 | LB22510 | ||||||
| 14 | No image URL. | Ocean liners–Registers | The Atlantic liners, 1925-70 | LB22512 | ||||||
| 15 | No image URL. | illus. | LB51354 | |||||||
| 16 | No image URL. | Nome, Cape; Alaska–Description and travel | Gold mines and mining–Alaska | Seward's land of gold : __five seasons experience with the gold seekers in northwestern Alaska __by L.H. French ... | LB12807 | |||||
| 17 | No image URL. | United States. Navy–History. | Privateering.; Shipping–United States | Half-title: Statistical history of the United States Navy. | LB8657 | |||||
| 18 | No image URL. | Ship models in bottles.; Architectural models in bottles | "500 copies." Includes index. | LB38029 | ||||||
| 19 | No image URL. | Ship captains–Biography–United States; Marine prints–Private collections–United States | Detached from: Technology review. Vol. 26, no. 7 (May, 1924). | LB34433 | ||||||
| 20 |  | VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MONTGOMERY VESSEL TYPE: AMERICAN STEAMSHIP VESSEL BUILT: 1858 SHIP'S COMMANDER: F.M. FAIRCLOTH VESSEL HISTORY: [From American Passenger Ships, The Ocean Lines and Liners 1873-1983, by Frederick E. Emmons, pg.120] In 1858, H.B. Cromwell and Company of New York in association with R.R. Cuyler, president of the George Central Railroad, and Baldwin and Company of Savannah, opened a service known as the American Atlantic Screw Steamship Company of Georgia with the sailing of the wooden steamer Montgomery from New York to Savannah. She was followed soon afterward by a similar shp, the Huntsville. They were the first large screw steamships on the coastwise service and were operated in competition with the ten year old New York and Savannah Steamship Company, known as the Mitchell Line. | CL22803 | |||||||
| 21 | No image URL. | Ocean liners–History–19th century. United States; Passenger ships–History–19th century. United States; Ocean liners–History–20th century. United States; Passenger ships–History–20th century. United States | Includes index. | LB22511 | ||||||
| 22 |  | John Birkbeck (Side wheel steamer : 1854). | John Birkbeck, 1854/Renamed James E. Emmons | Copy negative of a painting of the John Birkbeck. | MS0091/03.01-28#092 | |||||
| 23 |  | SHORT DESCRIPTION: "Quest," an H-12-1/2 sailboat designed and built by Nathanael Herreshoff of Bristol, Rhode Island around 1915. Wood, carvel-planked, with round bottom, deep keel, and outboard rudder. Now marconi-rigged, she was originally gaff-rigged, with wooden mast hoops, and sails laced onto the boom and jib-boom. Length overall 15'6", beam 5'10", draft 2'5". NOTES: In 1914, Robert Emmons of Monument Beach on Cape Cod, along with a few friends, placed an order with Nat Herreshoff for a group of small, seaworthy sailboats. The result was the Herreshoff 12-1/2 (The waterline length), which many sailors consider the finest family boat ever developed. Here was a boat that could be handled by everyone from the young skipper to grandma, surprisingly fast, and designed especially for Buzzards Bay where "the seas are steep and short, piled up by perennial sou'wester which blows almost daily during the yachting season." "QUEST" was purchased in August 1915 for $475.00, by William J. Matheson, former commodore of the New York Yacht Club, for his daughter Anna (Mrs. Willis D. Wood). The boat was active for 56 years, until Mrs. Wood was 89 years old. Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, friends, and even the family dogs enjoyed sail outings on "QUEST", with Mrs. Wood as skipper. VESSEL INFORMATION BOAT NAME: QUEST HERRESHOFF 12-1/2 SLOOP BOAT BUILT: 1915 BOAT BUILDER: HERRESHOFF MANUFACTURING CO. BUILDER LOCATION: BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 15-8-0 (length OA), 5-10-0 (beam) INVENTORY: 1) Main jib sail; 2) jib sail, 3) mast, 4) boom, 5) rudder, 6) tiller, 7) seat, 8) seat, 9) seat, 10)seat, 11) floor board, 12) floor board, 13) floor board, 14) plank, 15) hatch cover, 16) transom parts, 17) hatch flooring. There are seventeen (17) component parts. These items are associated with this boat. Please see component parts supplemental record for additional information. | CL6974 | |||||||
| 24 |  | VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: MONTGOMERY VESSEL TYPE: AMERICAN STEAMSHIP VESSEL BUILT: 1858 SHIP'S COMMANDER: F.M. FAIRCLOTH VESSEL HISTORY: [From American Passenger Ships, The Ocean Lines and Liners 1873-1983, by Frederick E. Emmons, pg.120] In 1858, H.B. Cromwell and Company of New York in association with R.R. Cuyler, president of the George Central Railroad, and Baldwin and Company of Savannah, opened a service known as the American Atlantic Screw Steamship Company of Georgia with the sailing of the wooden steamer Montgomery from New York to Savannah. | CL10522 | |||||||
| 25 |   | SHORT DESCRIPTION: Plastic button. Black lettering on light green background: LAUNCHING, U.S.S. HAMBLETON & U.S.S. RODMAN, September 26, 1941 VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: HAMBLETON - DD-455 SHIPBUILDER: FEDERAL SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CO. BUILDER LOCATION: KEARNY, NEW JERSEY KEEL LAID: 12/16/40 VESSEL LAUNCHED: 9/22/41 VESSEL COMMISSIONED: 12/22/41 SHIP'S MASTER: CMDR. FORREST CLOSE ALL SHIP'S NAMES: EMMONS, HAMBLETON VESSEL HISTORY: Converted to a minesweeper, DMS -20, 11/22/41. Decommissioned 1/15/55 to DD-455. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: RODMAN - DD-456 SHIPBUILDER: FEDERAL SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CO. BUILDER LOCATION: KEARNY, NEW JERSEY KEEL LAID: DECEMBER 16, 1940 VESSEL LAUNCHED: SEPTEMBER 26, 1941 VESSEL COMMISSIONED: APRIL 29, 1942 ALL SHIP'S NAMES: RODMAN; ROCS Hsien Yang (DD-16) VESSEL HISTORY: Transferred to Taiwan, 28 July 1955. Ran aground, circa 1969. Struck: 1 November 1972. Expended for film purposes in 1976. | CL9723 | |||||||
| 26 | No image URL. | NOTES: Sketchbook No. 2 of pencil drawings created by Antonio Jacobsen from 1878 to 1918 for his artworks. VESSELS LISTED IN SKETCHBOOK NO. 2, 1885 OCEAN KING (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1884) F. DASSORI (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1879) TANTALLON (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1879) LAWRENCE C. WARD or LAWRENCE WARD (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1884) J.G. EMMONS (Steam Paddle Wheel) (Service Dates 1854-1908) N.B. MORRIS (Bark) (Service Dates 1880-1902) ALICIA (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1883-1905) UTOWANA (Steam Yacht) (Vessel Built 1883) [HERMAN CORTEZ?] (Screw Steamship) AMOS C. BARSLOW (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1873) WINDHOVER (Bark) (Vessel Built 1868) ELECTRA (Screw Yacht) (Vessel Built 1884) BENEFACTOR (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1870-1912) OLINDA RODRIGUES (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1874-1905) LIBERIA (Bark) (Vessel Built 1872) CITY OF ROME (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1881-1902) FRANCES (Steam Paddle Wheel) (Vessel Built 1864) ROMAN (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1884) GEORGE W. PRIDE,JR. (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1883) CYNTHIA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1880) CAMDEN (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1878) (Sister Ship, JESMOND) GEORGE STARR (Steam Paddle Wheel) (Service Dates 1862-1914) CARMONA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1881) ANNA J. KIPP (Steam Tug) (Vessel Built 1873) MARTHA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1884) NEPTUNE (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1864-1905) | CL28276 | |||||||
| 27 | No image URL. | NOTES: Sketchbook No. 37 of pencil drawings created by Antonio Jacobsen from 1878 to 1918 for his artworks. VESSELS LISTED IN SKETCHBOOK NO. 37, DATED 1892-1893 PENINSULAR (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1887-1924) MOHICAN (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1892) LARGO LAW (Ship) (Vessel Built 1881) ALGONQUIN (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1890-1924) CHICAGO CITY (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1892-1929) ST. PAUL (Barkentine) (Vessel Built 1890) ETHELRED (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1890-1901) SHERMAN (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1892-1923) MOHAWK HERBERT FULLER (Barkentine) (Service Dates 1890-1917) CRANE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1897) DONNA MARIA (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1887-1913) LOUISIANA (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1897-1905) MONTEZUMA (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1891-1916) ANNIE EMMONS (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1887) TANCARVILLE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1881) WILSON (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1882) JOHN G. CHRISTOPHER (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1892) ARIOSA (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1885) NEW YORK R.C. VEIT (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1891) EDWARD M. TIMMINS (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1889) J. FRED LOHMAN (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1892) MARIPOSA (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1891-1895) FRANCISCO (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1890-1915) | CL28305 | |||||||
| 28 | No image URL. | 1883-1931 | John Birkbeck (1854-1912), ex J.G. Emmons; (Bard). | Steamboats–United States. | Copy negative of a painting of the steamer. | MS0091/03.02-02#1592 | ||||
| 29 | No image URL. | NOTES: Sketchbook No. 65 of pencil drawings created by Antonio Jacobsen from 1878 to 1918 for his artworks. VESSELS LISTED IN SKETCHBOOK NO. 65, DATED 1904 SAN JACINTO (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1903-1942) CONCHITA (Vessel Built 1903) PARMIA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1889) LANSING (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1890) MANOA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1889) KORONA (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1886) MONROE (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1902-1914) IL PIEMONTE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1901) ADDIE (Barge) (Vessel Built 1863) WILLIAM C. MOORE (Barge ) (Vessel Built 1904) JOHN E. MOORE (Paddle Wheel Steamship) (Service Dates 1853-1908) EVERTON GRANGE (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1903) W.A. SHERMAN (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1881) MARACAS (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1887) IDA (Paddle Wheel Steamship) (Service Dates 1881-1937) ORANGE (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built) 1903) UNION (Screw Tug) (Service Dates 1900-1937) MARTHA E. WALLACE (Schooner, 4) (Vessel Built 1902) ALISON BRIGGS (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1901) COMO (Screw Steamship) (Service Dates 1902-1931) MANZANARES (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1880) DAGGRY (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1898) DAISY (Half Brig) (Service Dates 1872-1916) ANDREW J. WHITE (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1892) R.J. FOSTER (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1903) DESPATCH (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built1899) INSPECTOR (Vessel Built 1903) TOLCHESTER (Paddle Wheel Steamship) (Service Dates 1866-1914) ARIOSA (Screw Tug) (Vessel Built 1885) PATROL (Screw Steamship) (Vessel Built 1893) J.E. EMMONS (Paddle Wheel Steamship) (Service Dates 1854-1908) LAURA (Barge) (Vessel Built 1857) 1 | CL28331 | |||||||
| 30 | No image URL. | Venice (Italy)–Pictorial works | Painting–History–Italy–Venice | Venice __ __text by Mario Brunetti ... [et al.] Translated by James Emmons | LB97198 | |||||
| 31 |  | NOTES: Excerpt about the history of the 16-gun brig privateer Saratoga from 'Historic Ships-The Forgotten 'Saras'' by J. M. Caiella, Proceedings, June 2017, Volume 31, Number 3: perhaps the most significant was an 18-gun schooner during the War of 1812 described by historians William Dudley and Michael Crawford as “one of the most active American privateers in the Caribbean during the first year of the war.” Under three commanders, she took at least 22 ships. Among them, the large, 690-ton ship Neptune was, according to a contemporary report in The Weekly Register by Hezekiah Niles, “probably one of the most valuable ships taken during the war.” This Saratoga was one of the conflict’s earliest privateers to set sail. In the autumn of 1812, she departed New York City with a crew of 140 to begin her career. She quickly captured the 16-gun ship Quebec out of Jamaica with a cargo valued at $300,000. NOTES: Excerpt from 'History of the American Privateers, and Letters-of-Marque, during our War with England in the years 1812, '13 and '14...' by George Coggeshall, New York, 1856, page 58: Ship Quebec, from Jamaica, sixteen guns, fifty-two men, burthen 400 tons, laden with sugar, etc., valued at $300,000, sent into New York by the Saratoga. Her cargo consists of 334 hogsheads of sugar, 59 puncheons of rum, 636 bales of cotton, 52 tierces of coffee, 52½ tons of logwood, 70 tons fustic, 1 ton ebony, a quantity of old copper, a quantity of hides and spars. The Saratoga [Capt. Riker] returned to port with between seventy and eighty prisoners on board, nearly as many as her crew at present consists of. VESSEL INFORMATION: From: George Foster Emmons, The navy of the United States, from the commencement, 1775 to 1853; with a brief history of each vessel’s service and fate ... Comp. by Lieut. George F. Emmons ... under the authority of the Navy Dept. To which is added a list of private armed vessels, fitted out under the American flag ... also a list of the revenue and coast survey vessels, and principal ocean steamers, belonging to citizens of the United States in 1850. ( Washington: Gideon & Co., 1853.) 16-gun brig, 140 men, commanded by Capt. A. Riker and Capt. O. Wooster, &c, out of New York, captured 5 ships 5 brigs, 9 schooners, and 3 sloops, cargo and estimated value F., D. G., R., S., W., iv'y. Several vessels armed and resisted; two wrecked, crew saved; 2 burnt, 1 sunk, 3 ransomed. The ship Quebec, 16 guns and 52 men, had a cargo valued at $300,000. Page 200-201 gives details of Capt. Wooster's actions with armed vessels Rachael, Morgiana, Swiftsure, and James. NOTES: Information concerning the Bailey Collection of watercolor views of U.S. Naval actions (1745-1850) in The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia. In 1940 The Mariners’ purchased from a dealer in London a collection of 254 watercolor drawings, which were at the time attributed to Charles T. Warren (1767-1823), an engraver. They were represented as having belonged to a Charles Kingsley Bailey, and have henceforth been referred to as the Bailey Collection. The views in the collection range from the Siege of Louisburg in 1745 to an action which occurred in 1850. Simply on the basis of the breadth of coverage, then, it appeared unlikely that these were executed contemporary to the action by one person. Moreover, persons making studies of individual vessels represented in the collection have pointed out that there are major inaccuracies in the details of the vessels. Research initiated by the museum from 1974 to 1982 subsequently revealed that the watercolors were actually done by Irwin John Bevan (1852-1940). Welsh-born Bevan was a keen naval historian and his sketches and paintings included many maritime subjects. His work can be seen in Sea Fights of the Great War by W.L. Wyllie and M. F. Wrenn, published in 1918. Since Bevan did book illustrations, the present assumption is that this group of watercolors was executed to illustrate a projected work on the history of the U.S. Navy, especially as it related to the British Navy. Detailed contemporary accounts of the U.S.-British actions were written down in letters, official reports and newspapers of the day and nineteenth century historians had these sources available for their texts. The accounts accompanying Bevan’s paintings relied heavily on all these sources. Notwithstanding this however, the paintings must not be taken as primary documents of either the vessels or the engagements. They should be viewed in the context of the artist’s conceptions, which may vary considerably in their reliability. It is left to the discretion of the researcher whether or not this material will be of value in the current project. | CL12259 | |||||||
| 32 |  | SHORT DESCRIPTION: Process print in colors (Collotype). ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: See Yachting, April-May 1936, "The Fate of the Cup Defenders" by William U. Swan. Part II, May, 1936, p. 117. | CL19007 | |||||||
| 33 |    | SHORT DESCRIPTION: Oil painted board covered with white canvas. Sailors stand at either end of the board each holding the spokes of a large steering wheel. There is a large eagle with wings spread over a United States shield. A banner in his beak reads "Private Signals of the Merchants of Boston, Mass. NOTES: Before the advent of the electric telegraph, a system of flag signals was in use, the merchants of Boston having a set of one hundred and twelve private signals, each one a different flag. When a ship arrived, the owner's color was run up at Hull, repeated on an island in the harbor, again shown on Central Wharf, and finally at the old State House. NOTES: The painting appears to be severely overpainted as some of the merchants names are spelled incorrectly. There are photographs in the object file which seem to show the painting undergoing some sort of "restoration" in the shipyard's model shop in the 1930s or 1940s. The painting was faced with tissue and varnish in the 1970s to try and hold the painted surface together. It has remained that way ever since. This may be the original painting from which the well-known lithograph by Kramer & Co. was created from. There are some mistakes in the rendering of the signal flags that may be attributed to the heavy overpaint. For example: in column 7 a rectangular flag with a yellow field and blue dot has no name underneath (T. S. Davis & Co.) and in column 8 the Higgins & Co. flag is portrayed as a rectangular shape with white field and blue dot when its supposed to show a swallowtail shape with white field and blue dot. NOTES: For references below see object file. Iasici, Goddard, & Co. is also spelled Iasigi or Jasigi. The partners were Joseph Jasigi and Thomas A. Goddard. From Joseph’s 1897 obituary, he came to Boston from Armenia in 1830 and formed the partnership. His son, Joseph Andrew Jasigi, was born in 1848 and eventually became a partner. Joseph Andrew went on to be a consul general to Turkey but was arrested for embezzling $220,000, for which he spent 12 years in prison. J. H. Cheney operated in the 1840s and 1850s as a merchant and ship broker. By 1855 he had offices at 4 India wharf. Larkin & Stackpole Co. - Charles Larkin and David D. Stackpole (1811-1879) started the company in 1852 and continued until 1877 when it became Larkin & Cutting with Andrew Cutting. F. Nickerson & Co was Fred W. Nickerson (1808-1879), the company name became F.W. Nickerson & Co. after Fred died. F.W. Nickerson included Frederick W. Nickerson, Alfred A. Nickerson, and Elkanan C. Crosby but their company failed in 1886 after their ship, City of Columbus, sank. Blanchard, Sherman & Co. included Alfred Blanchard, Elisha Sherman, and George Baker. They were in business as commission merchants from the 1840s to mid-1860s. Sampson & Tappan were George R. Sampson and Lewis W. Tappan. They were co-owners of the Stag Hound with George B. Upton, which was an extreme clipper built by Donald MacKay. One of their New York representatives was Vernon H. Brown who later worked for Cunard Steam Ship Company. One of the largest shipowners in Boston. N. & B. Goddard - Nathaniel Goddard had an office at 24 Union wharf in 1836 but failed before Panic of 1857. W. M. Ropes & Co. - William H. Ropes and Joseph S. Ropes had offices at 36 India wharf 1848. They had relocated to 25 Lewis wharf by 1855 but by then the partners were William H. Hardy and Joseph S. Ropes. The company was still in business there in 1862 with William Ropes, Hardy Ropes, and Joseph S. Ropes as partners. Homer & Sprague - Richard T. Sprague and Charles Homer appear in the papers as early as 1843. They had offices at 36 India wharf by 1855 and were still there by 1872. Page, Richardson & Co. dissolved in 1875. Dabney & Cunningham - Frederic Cunningham (1826-1864) and his cousin, Charles William Dabney, Jr. started the company in 1848 but closed when Cunningham died. Their offices were at 59 Commercial wharf and they owned the ships Harbinger, Pomona, Grampus, Melita, Io, Mermaid, Lotos, Azor, and Fredonia. A. Cunningham & Sons started in 1822 as A. & C. Cunningham (Andrew & Charles) but Charles retired in 1849 so Andrew's sons, James Henry Cunningham and Charles West Cunningham became partners and the name changed to A. Cunningham & Sons. Charles' son, Frederick, helped start Dabney & Cunningham above. Crowell, Lewis & Co. was Joseph D. Crowell, William H. Lewis, and George T. Lovell. They were ship chandlers at 120 Commercial wharf in 1852, and also appear in the 1872 city directory. Zadoc C. Crowell was a senior partner when he died in 1887. E. Atkins was Elisha Atkins, he started working with William F. Freeman in 1838 as Atkins & Freeman, but went into business alone in 1849 until 1866 when John W. Cummings became a partner and the company became Atkins & Co. Elisha died in 1888 but Atkins' son and grandson eventually joined the company as late as 1915. Baker & Morrill was Ezra H. Baker and Charles J. Morrill. The company started in 1840s as Baker & Hardy with Alpheus Hardy. When Morrill worked his way up from bookkeeper to partner in 1845 the name changed to Hardy, Baker, & Morrill. When Hardy retired the name became Baker & Morrill. They owned the ship Southern Cross, built in 1851. Daniel Draper & Son - Daniel (1788-1867), by 1855 William Perkins Draper was in control with offices at 20 S. Market. A.C. Hersey was Alfred C. Hersey (1804-1888), a merchant at 67 Commercial wharf by 1855. His obituary states, he "was the largest owner and wharfinger of Commercial wharf for 25 years,” and he was also a partial owner in at least 40 different vessels. Charles S. Brown & Co. were commercial merchants at 11 Custom House Street in 1855 city directory. By 1857 and again in 1858 they are at 28 India Wharf. Geo. M. Barnard was George M. Barnard, who appears in the papers as early as the 1840s. He had offices at 41 Commercial wharf by 1855, and in 1866 contributed money toward the purchase of a school ship, it was sold in 1872. John H. Foster & Co. were grain merchants but the company was suspended in 1880. Howes & Crowell - Osborn Howes was born in 1806, started the company with his brother-in-law, the company lasted 34 years. Ships included the Josephine, George Hallett, Newton, and Osborn Howes. 1855 city directory has Osborn Howes and Nathan Crowell as commercial merchants at 65 Commercial wharf. J. H. Shattuck & Co. - Alfred B. Warren, Francis A. Osborn were ship chandlers at 4 Commercial Wharf in 1855 city directory. Warren died in 1881. Matthew Cobb appears in the papers in the early 1840s. By 1855 he had offices at 4 Central wharf, and in 1858 a ship he owned, Serampore, was lost off Cohasset in a snow storm but all hands survived. Henry Gardner (1809-1890) was a merchant in the 1830s and 1840s who owned the ship Hazard, bark Henry, and schooner Renown, and others. Sprague, Soule & Co. - They sold plaster as early as 1839, and by 1848 the partners were William Sprague, George M. Soule, and Edward Whitney with offices at 7 T wharf. By 1855 the partners were George M. Soule, Edward Whitney, and Alfred Winsor, dealers in plaster and grindstones. They helped start what became the Boston & Philadelphia Steamship Company, running it under their name until 1873. Henry Winsor died in 1889 and Alfred Winsor became president. Tow Boat R. B. Forbes was named for Captain Robert Bennet Forbes. The tug was built in 1845 by Otis Tufts, the first with an iron hull to be built in Boston. It helped ships move from the New England shipyards to New York to finish the fitting out process and was sold several times until the U.S. Navy purchased her in 1861. She ran aground in a storm off Cape Henry on February 25, 1862, and was lost. Perrin & Gilbert – Franklin Perrin and Benjamin W. Gilbert were commission merchants at 49 Central Wharf in 1855 city directory. H. P. Oxnard – Henry P. Oxnard was a merchant at 19 India in 1855 city directory Crowell, Brooks & Co. – Henry G. Crowell and H.C. Brooks with S.M. Hunt at 37 and 38 Commercial Wharf in 1855 city directory. George B. Upton born in 1804, was shipowner, ship designer, and politician. Listed as merchant in 1855 city directory at City Exchange and a house at 56 Bowdoin. Involved in shipping, whaling, railroads, died in July 1874. Prince & Baker – Richard M. Baker and Samuel Prince were sailmakers at 22 India Wharf in 1855 city directory David Snow & Co. were commercial merchants. In 1853 they owned the ship Reporter, by 1855 they had offices at 1 Commerce, and in 1874 when Otis wharf caught fire their fish wharf burned as well. G. T. & W. P. Lyman - George Theodore Lyman and William Pratt Lyman were merchants at 97 State Street. The company failed in Panic of 1857. J. S. Coolidge & Co. - Joseph S. Coolidge worked with George H. MacKay from 1833-1850, then started his own firm. The partners were John Templeton Coolidge, Joseph S. Coolidge, Jr., and John Templeton Coolidge, Jr. They owned ship Nor’wester in 1855, also owned Versailles, Atlas, Annie Buckram, and R.B. Forbes. By 1855 the partners were A.C. Slater and John Templeton Coolidge, Jr. Seccomb & Taylor started as Seccomb, Bartlett, & Co. who were commission merchants at 31 and 32 Commercial wharf in 1845; the partners then were E. Seccomb, C.L. Bartlett, and E.R. Seccomb. By 1852 the company had become Seccomb & Taylor, with Captain Isaac Taylor involved. They built ships and sold them rather than operating the ships themselves. The company owned the Winged Racer, Swallow, Queen of Clippers, Red Jacket, Blue Jacket, and Springbok. By the 1870s Charles L. Bartlett ran a firm called C.L. Bartlett & Co., but whether it was the same company or something separate is unknown. He died in 1883. Hill, Sears & Co. - Hamilton A. Hill and Eben Sears were commission and forwarding merchants at 21 Commercial wharf in 1855 directory. They were taxed in 1856, by 1857 they were at 69 Commercial Wharf. A large fire in 1851 destroyed their paint stuffs. B. C. Clark & Co. - Benjamin C. Clark & Co. operated from 1830-1848, owned Sea Eagle, Water Witch, Silenus, Red Rover, Sea Mew, he built and owned schooner Mermaid the first decked yacht in Boston, and built Raven which won the first regatta cup sailed in Massachusetts Bay in 1845. Fisher & Co. Eben S. Fisher, Francis Fisher, Francis K. Fisher, and J.B. Robinson were commercial merchants at 23 Central Wharf in 1855 directory. By 1866 directory the firm was Eben S. Fisher, Edward P. Fisher, Emery P. Fisher, Francis Fisher, Francis K. Fisher, John H. Fisher were commercial merchants at 23 Central Wharf. E. D. Brigham & Co. - Elijah D. Brigham & Co. existed by 1846 with offices at 1 Long wharf with Joseph L. Brigham. By 1855 the partners were J.S. Brigham and Joseph L. Brigham, but the company (flour merchants) failed in the Panic of 1857. An 1859 advertisement has J.S. Brigham working with Thayer, Brigham, & Field and next to Brigham's name is (late E.D. Brigham & Co.). Vernon Brown & Son (see Sampson & Tappan above) - shipbrokers at 5 Merchant Exchange. Vernon H. Brown became the agent for Cunard Steam Ship Line. Wm. Appleton & Co. - William Appleton started the company and Samuel Hooper joined him in 1842. Samuel Hooper, F. Gordon Dexter, John H. Reed were merchants with this company at 35 and 36 Lewis Wharf in 1848 and still in 1855. They were part owners of the Ocean Monarch with Enoch Train & Co. and R.G. Shaw & Co. Wheelwright & Cobb – Josiah Wheelwright and Samuel C. Cobb in 1855 directory as commission merchants at 47 Central Wharf W. A. Harris – William A. Harris was a merchant and agent at 7 Rowe’s wharf in 1855 directory Isaac Rich & Co. - Isaac Rich (1801-1872) was in the fish business and one of the founders of Boston University. By 1855 the partners were Aaron B. Vannevar, Orien E. Downing, Thomas A. Rich, Edward S. Dane at 35 Commercial. The company was at the same address in 1872, but by 1889 they were in debt and hoping for an extension on the repayments. Thomas A. Rich had been in the fish business since at least 1849. B. Burgess & Sons appears in the newspapers from 1840-1881. Benjamin Burgess, Nathan B. Gibbs and Benjamin F. Burgess were commission merchants at 38 India Wharf, but the company failed in 1881. Chas. B. Fessenden is in the papers in 1842, was a commission merchant at 134 State in 1855 directory. The 1879 directory has him working as part of Fessenden, Russell, & Co. Williams & Daland – Henry T. Daland and Henry L. Williams were merchants at 33 Lewis Wharf in 1855 directory. Firm dissolved in 1862. Trull Brothers were distillers Ezra Trull and John P. Tarbell, they had a fire in 1838 when the vapors from the liquor caught fire. They existed at 50 Merrimac between 1851 and 1855. By 1859 they added Alexander Sidi to the firm and offices had moved to 42 Court. There was another fire in 1857 and the company failed in 1858 but Daniel Emery Chase (who had started working there in 1852) took over for the year until he partnered with Ezra Trull & Co. to eventually become Chase & Trull by late 1860s or early 1870s. Pierce & Bacon - George Bacon, Thomas Pierce partnered in 1845, grocers who began trading. In 1851 they partnered with Andrew Pierce and he joined in 1852. Dissolved in 1865. Magoun & Son - Thatcher Magoun and Thatcher Magoun Jr. were merchants at 66 State in the 1855 directory. Magoun started the company in 1833, but when he died in 1856 at age 81 his son and grandson carried on with same company name until dissolved in 1877. They had more than 60 ships at one time. He was a ship designer, builder, and merchant and built many of his own ships. W. & F.H. Whittmore & Co. - sometimes spelled Whitmore Alpheus Hardy & Co. - Alpheus Hardy and Ezra Baker worked together in the 1840s along the coast then extended to the Mediterranean. Never lost a ship to the Confederates in the Civil War. Hardy died in 1887 so his son, Alpheus H. Hardy, took over. Thomas Lamb - President of New England National Bank of Boston, daughter was Emily Goddard Lamb who married Gustavus Tuckerman, Jr. in 1851 (see Tuckerman, Townsend & Co. below). E. Gassett & Co. - Edward Gassett & Co. were merchants at 67 Commercial Wharf with Edward R. Hall in 1855 directory. Owned clipper ship Mermaid. Lombard & Co. - Ephraim Lombard was a commission merchant who started the company in 1827 and operated from 13 Lewis wharf by 1838, by 1851 they were running packets to Charleston, SC. They were the original co-owners of ships Moneynick (1854), Edisto (1851), and Seabird (1851). The company was still in existence when his son, Ephraim Lombard, Jr. died in 1916 but the offices had moved to South Boston by that year. R.C. MacKay is Robert Caldwell MacKay, a ship owner who worked with J.S. Coolidge between 1833 and 1850 at 16 Union wharf, and continued his offices there through the mid 1850s. He owned property on Beacon Street. A.S. & W.C. Lewis - Should be A.S. & W.G. Lewis for Abiel Smith Lewis and William Gustavus Lewis. They were commission merchants at 53 Commercial wharf. They possibly worked as druggists for a time in the 1840s, but by 1872 the company operated from 7 Rowes Wharf with Charles Dudley Lewis. Enoch Train & Co. – Train Line (White Diamond Line) of packets to Liverpool started in 1844, Enoch worked with his uncle Samuel Train earlier. Located at 37 Lewis Wharf, then around 1852 he bought Constitution Wharf with his private offices on State Street. After he died in 1868 the company became Thayer & Warren, then Warren & Co. Glidden & Williams began in 1849 with William T. Glidden and John M.S. Williams; by 1852 John A. Glidden had become a partner and the company had started a line of packets to San Francisco. They were merchants at 29 Lewis wharf by 1855 but the company dissolved in 1877. Possibly related to the current Glidden paint company. Rush & Wildes - should be Bush & Wildes. Moses B. Wildes and James P. Bush were commission merchants at 20 India Wharf in 1855 directory and owned the ship Whistler. They appear in books in 1837 and again in 1860. Later the company may have become Bush & Comstock. Curtis & Peabody - Francis Curtis and S. Endicott Peabody were merchants at 40 India Wharf in 1855 directory. Suffered during panic of 1857 but appear in directory of 1870 at 40 State. E. Weston & Son was Ezra Weston who started the company E. Weston in 1763. His son, Ezra Weston II became a partner in 1798 and the name became E. Weston & Son, then full owner when his father passed away in 1822 and the name returned to E. Weston. Ezra Weston II's sons took over the company when he died in 1842 and the name became E. Weston & Sons. The sons were Gershom Bradford Weston, Alden Bradford Weston, and Ezra Weston IV. Their offices were on Commercial wharf, but the company closed in 1857. John M. Mayor & Co. - should be John M. Mayo & Co. were merchants at 5 India Wharf in 1855 directory. Crocker & Sturgis - James Sturgis and Henry H. Crocker were merchants at 80 State in the 1855 city directory, but had worked with Crocker & Warren of New York since the 1840s. Reed & Wade - Reuben S. Wade and Samuel G. Reed, appear in papers by 1846 and then merchants at 16 North Market in 1855 directory. Owned steamer Argo at one time. A. T. Hall - Andrew T. Hall, died November 1875 from obituary in The Boston Globe, 23 November 1875: He was 77, worked with brother Samuel and John T. Wells in company, became largest importers of crockery and glassware in the country. Firm dissolved in 1847, owned ships, supported Enoch Train’s “famous line of packets.” George C. Lord was born in Kennebunk, Maine in 1823 and moved to Boston in 1843. He formed the company in 1850 with his brother and they became ship builders and owners. They launched ship Josephus in 1850 from Kennebunk, and later owned bark Wild Hunter that was dismasted while at sea in 1882. Charles H. Lord was listed as a partner in 1855 and George C. Lord died in 1893. Bush & Comstock were agents for Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1862. S. C. Thwing & Co. - 1877 obituary says Supply C. Thwing was born 1798 and died 1877, formed partnership in 1831 with Stephen H. Perkins, Perkins retired in 1844 so Thwing partnered a few days later with Richard Sullivan to form S.C. Thwing & Co. Sullivan retired in 1867 when E.B. Townsend and John Thomas joined the partnership. They were merchants who owned vessels, worked in coal trade. T. B. Wales & Co. - The 1832 city directory has the company as a partnership between Nathaniel H. Emmons and Thomas B. Wales Jr. at Wales wharf. From Emmons’ 1878 obituary, he joined the company as a boy in the counting room and worked his way up to become a partner. He married a Wales daughter. By 1855 George W. Wales had joined Emmons as a partner at 50 Central wharf. Cunningham Bro’s started by two nephews of Andrew and Charles Cunningham (see above), John A. Cunningham and Loring Cunningham Tuckerman, Townsend & Co. - Gustavus Tuckerman Jr. was born in England in 1824. He represented Curtis & Greenough and made partner after 1849. He married Emily Goddard Lamb, daughter of Thomas Lamb (see above), in 1851. Around then Alfred Greenough died so Tuckerman Jr. partnered with Thomas D. Townsend to create the firm. Company dissolved in 1859 because of bad trading economy with India. N. Winsor Junr & C. - Nathaniel Winsor Jr. & Co. was run by Aaron Sargent Jr, a commercial merchant in 1855 directory. | CL12612 |
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