All posts tagged "china trade"
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7.9K1ConnecticutWhy Connecticut Sent Henry Obookiah Back To Hawaii, 175 Years After He Died
Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian, caused a stir in the spring of 1815 when he sat in front of the white worshippers...
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5.1K2Business and LaborThe New England Opium Crisis of 1805
New England’s role in the opium trade in the early 1800s is a little-noted phenomenon. New England opium trade produced considerable wealth...
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Ebenezer Mix’s Last Stand (or Captain Eb Battles a Ghost)
Born in 1776 to John Mix, Captain Ebenezer Mix was part of the postwar generation who opened up the China trade. First...
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10.1K1ConnecticutThe Hartford Insurance Story: One Man, One Bold Stroke, One Insurance Capital
In 1835 Connecticut’s Eliphalet Terry assumed leadership of a small Hartford insurance firm. Within one year, and with one master stroke, he...
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10.0K1MassachusettsThe China Trader Who Built the Lyman Estate
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
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31.1K13ConnecticutSix Oldest Libraries in New England
Identifying New England’s oldest libraries is no easy task. In the early days of European settlement, book collections took many different forms....
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