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Hunter, George W., & Company | Maine Maritime Museum Manuscript Collection Online Catalog

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Name: Hunter, George W., & Company

Historical Note: George W. Hunter was a shipping agent and commission merchant of Boston, Massachusetts. Hunter was originally born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and moved to Boston as an adult around 1855. The Boston Directory for that year shows that Hunter and Thomas W. Johnson were doing business at 6 Commercial Wharf as commission merchants under the name of Thomas L. De Wolf and Company. By 1860, the De Wolf name had been dropped, with their interests handled by the firm of Johnson, Hunter and Company at 5 Commercial Wharf. Five years later, the office was moved to 1 Commercial Wharf, where the successor firms of Hunter, Ryder and Crawley (1869) and George W. Hunter & Co. (1870-1875?) later conducted business. When the 1869 partnership broke up, Benjamin Crawley, possibly from Nova Scotia, opened his own office in Philadelphia. Hunter's last partner was George Lovitt, who may have been connected with the Lovitts of Yarmouth.

Records or Manuscript Collections Created by Hunter, George W., & Company