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Grinnell, Minturn & Co. was one of the leading transatlantic shipping companies in the middle 19th century. It is probably best known today as being the...

Robert Bowne Minturn (1805-1866), American merchant Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr. (1836–1889), American shipping magnate Grinnell, Minturn & Co., 19th-century...

Iowa, US-based reinsurance company Grinnell, Minturn & Co, a 19th-century American shipping company Grinnell (automobile), an electric car made in Detroit...

admiral in the British Royal Navy. Henry Grinnell, father of Sylvia and Walton, was a partner in Grinnell, Minturn & Co., owners of the Swallowtail shipping...

Fish, Grinnell & Company. A few years later, with the addition of Henry's brother-in-law, Robert Bowne Minturn, the firm became Grinnell, Minturn & Company...

Minturn, Jr., who was vice president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad that founded the town. He was also a member of Grinnell, Minturn &...

In 1830, Robert Bowne Minturn joined the firm and it became Grinnell & Minturn. The company stayed active until 1880. Grinnell became a successful New...

his 1848 testimony before a parliamentary committee, Robert Minturn of Grinnell, Minturn & Co "stated that teetotalism not only was encouraged by American...

Bowne Minturn Sr. and Anna Mary Wendell. He graduated from Columbia University in 1856, and joined his father's shipping firm, Grinnell, Minturn & Co,...

of Grinnell & Minturn made Robert Minturn a wealthy man, and his son Robert Jr., joined the firm as well. In May 1848, an overworked Robert Minturn and...

construction. While still under construction, she was purchased by Grinnell, Minturn & Co., of New York, for $90,000, which represented a huge profit for...

Line). Twelve years later (1851), Moses H. Grinnell, investor in the Patrick Henry and partner in Grinnell, Minturn & Co. purchased, for $90,000, the Flying...

pleasure trips. Grinnell was a partner with his brother, Joseph Grinnell, in the shipping firm Grinnell, Minturn & Co. The Grinnell was built in 1850...

225 ft (69 m) The Flying Cloud was built by Donald McKay, and owned by Grinnell, Minturn & Co which was based out of Boston. In 1854, she set a record of 89...

York. He, along with Joseph Grinnell, controlled a potent shipping firm named Fish & Grinnell – later Grinnell, Minturn & Company – which had its beginnings...

establishing the firm of Fish and Grinnell, which later became Grinnell, Minturn & Co. His two younger brothers, Moses and Henry Grinnell, became members of the...

she was launched, at which point she was purchased and renamed by Grinnell & Minturn. At the time she was fastest sailing ship ever built. She was wrecked...

January 1839, he became a partner in the New York shipping firm of Grinnell, Minturn & Company. He served as U.S. Consul for Chile at New York, from 1840...

Minturn Road, Le Grand. Jonas Minturn was a member of the same family that ran Grinnell, Minturn & Co. Jonas and Abby West Minturn's children were Mary, Thomas...

Prince Albert Steamship For private owner. September  United States Grinnell & Minturn New York Ashburton Merchantman For private owner. 5 October  United...