Joseph Sassoon opens the family archives to tell the story of one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century. The Sassoons were Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad who forged a mercantile juggernaut from their new home in colonial Bombay. In the process they formed a vast network of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shepard_Wetmore China Trade Due to impaired health William's physician advised a career move to China. In 1833, he traveled to Canton, China and took over a partnership in Dunn Company. He formed close ties with a jun ...