John Murray Forbes

American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist
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Business Positions

Michigan Central Railroad
• President ('46→'55)
Russell & Company Boston company sold opium to the Chinese, and imported tea and silk to America
• clerk in the Canton office ('30→?)

In the office of

Augustine Heard Russell & Co.
• clerk (past)

Holdings

Mount Savage Iron Works The largest iron works in the US in the late 1840s, the first to produce rails for railroads
• Owner ('47→?)

Family

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James Perkins Boston, Massachusetts 1733-1773
• grandfather ('13→?)
Paul Sieman Forbes Russell & Co.
• cousin
Sarah Hathaway
• wife
William Hathaway Forbes
• son
Mary Forbes
• sister
John Perkins Cushing A wealthy Boston sea merchant and opium smuggler
• cousin ('13→?)
Rev. John Forbes
• grandfather ('13→?)
Dorothea Murray
• grandmother ('13→?)
John Malcolm Forbes
• son
Thomas Tunno Forbes Eldest son of Ralph Bennet and Margaret Perkins Forbes
• brother

Schools

Round Hill School Northampton, Massachusetts
• High School, ('23→'28)
Phillips Academy Elite boarding school in Andover, MA
• High School (past)

Social

John Murray Forbes
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Basic Info

Types Person, Business Person
Gender Male
Birthday 1813
Date of death 1898

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