Westmore Family (10/12)


A black and white photograph of a man wearing a tuxedo.
A black and white photograph of a man wearing a tuxedo.

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William Shepard Wetmore was an American philanthropist and businessman involved in trade with China. He traveled to Canton in 1833 and took over a partnership with Dunn & Company. He later formed a new merchant house, Wetmore & Company, with a junior partner. Wetmore's records from 1834 to 1839 show that the main products traded by the company were tea, tea papers, silks, and spices, with smaller shipments of wine, port, opium, hemp, pearl buttons, copper, and coffee.


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