- is a type of
trader who
receives and
sells goods on commission,
called factorage. A
factor is a
mercantile fiduciary transacting business that operates...
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included a
bakery and confectionary, a
general dry
goods store,
cotton factorage, and bank. He was also a
major investor and
organizer of Houston-based...
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Peruvian port of
Iquitos by the
government of Peru. A
dockyard and navy
factorage imported from
England was
immediately constructed. In time
Iquitos grew...
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markets such as New York City or London. By the end of the 19th century,
factorage was on the
decline as more
planters were
selling their products at interior...
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larger markets such as New York or London. By the end of the 19th
century factorage was on the
decline as more
planters were
selling their products at interior...
- at
which point the firm dissolved. In 1888, he
entered the naval-store
factorage business in Savannah, Georgia, as a
partner in Pea****, Hunt & Co. He...
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enterprises with area
planters in what was
known as the
commission or
factorage business. The
Girods kept a
wholesale and
retail store in the vicinity...
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troubled Bank of the
United States (1819–1823), and
closed the "Indian
factorage" matter,
which saved the
government considerable money ($113,000 being...
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until 1730. He
described his
early business there as "chiefly in the
factorage and
commission way: For his said
patron Mr
Allen and his own friends"...
- Church. In the 1780s he
moved to
Jamaica to work in his uncle's
slave factorage business in Kingston, Jamaica,
where his
brothers Robert and
Thomas were...
