John Murray Forbes

Attachments

1824-1891 Russell & Company
1863-Today Union Club of Boston
1865-Today The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, (MOLLUS)
19th-century American railroad executives
American abolitionists
American expatriates in China
American philanthropists
American Unitarians
Businesspeople from Boston
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad people
Forbes family
Forbes family and the illegal drug trade links
Founders of American schools and colleges
Founders of schools in the United States
Howqua (AKA Wu Bingjian)
Howqua's Godson
Massachusetts Democrats
Massachusetts Republicans
Merchants
Opium traders
Phillips Academy Andover
Propagandists
Ralph Bennett Forbes

1838-Today J.M. Forbes & Co.
1840 Heard set up his own company, Augustine Heard & Co., in 1840 with Joseph Coolidge and John Murray Forbes, friends and partners who had remained in Canton.
1840-1875 Augustine Heard & Co.
1859 John Murray Forbes supplied money and weapons to New Englanders to fight slavery in Kansas and in 1859 entertained John Brown.
1860 John Murray Forbes was an elector for Abraham Lincoln.
1861-1865 John Murray Forbes served as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln.
1863 Staunchly pro-Union, John Murray Forbes is given credit for founding the New England Loyal Publication Society in early 1863 (Smith 1948).
1863-? Loyal Publication Society
As with Jay Gould and E. H. Harriman, Forbes was an important figure in the building of America's railroad system.
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
Michigan Central Railroad
US Sec of State/Sen John Forbes Kerry
William Hathaway Forbes