Overview
Records of merchant and shipowner Thatcher Magoun and his son Thatcher Magoun, Jr., of Boston and Medford, Mass., relating to their involvement in international trade and shipping, 1816-1885.
Dates
- Creation: 1816-1885
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials stored onsite. Please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for more information.
Extent
6 linear feet (40 volumes, 11 cases, 2 boxes)Papers of Thatcher Magoun , Sr., and Thatcher Magoun, Jr. , merchants of Boston and Medford, Mass., relating to trade in many parts of the world. Includes correspondence, journals, waste books, ledgers, invoice books, and ships’ books. The Magouns sent their ships to ports in Europe, South America , West Indies , Chincha Islands , India , Singapore , Honolulu , Manila, San Francisco , and southern ports in the United States. The commodity most extensively dealt in was guano , which they procured from the Chincha Islands and shipped to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Havre, and Great Britain.
Biographical / Historical
Thatcher Magoun in Massachusetts in 1775. He began his career as a carpenter in Boston and Salem. He eventually opened his own ship building firm and the first in Medford, Mass. on the Mystic River. He retained shares in the ships he built amasssing enough wealth to make him one of the richest men in Medford.
Physical Location
MANU
Genre / Form
Occupation
Topical
- Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce.
- Chincha islands.
- Great Britain -- Commerce.
- Guano.
- Honolulu (Hawaii)
- India -- Commerce.
- Le Havre (France) -- Commerce.
- Manila (Philippines) -- Commerce.
- Medford (Mass.)
- Netherlands -- Commerce.
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Commerce.
- Shipping -- Massachusetts.
- Singapore -- Commerce.
- South America.
- West Indies.
Source
- Magoun, Thatcher (Person)
Subject
- Magoun, Thatcher (Person)
- Leach, Samuel Kidder (1819-1874) (Person)
- McLaughlin, Daniel (1823-1896) (Person)
- Welch, Francis W. (Person)
- Winsor, Alexander (Person)
- Winsor, Daniel Loring (1804-) (Person)
- Baring Brothers & Co. (Organization)
- Howland & Aspinwall (Organization)
- Russell & Sturgis (Organization)
- T. Magoun & Son (Organization)
- Tremont Nail Company (Organization)
- Union Insurance Company (Bangor, Me.) (Organization)
- Herald of the Morning (Clipper ship) (Organization)
- Medford (Ship) (Organization)
- Thatcher Magoun (Clipper ship) (Organization)
- Author
- Baker Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- bak00126
Repository Details
Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository
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