Pacific Mail Steamship Company

This article is about the shipping company chartered in New York state. For the shipping company in Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska, see Pacific Steamship Company.
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
IndustryTransportation
Founded1848
Defunct1949 (de jure), 1925 (de facto)
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SS California, Pacific Mail's first ship

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was founded April 18, 1848, as a joint stock company under the laws of the State of New York by a group of New York City merchants. Incorporators included William H. Aspinwall, Edwin Bartlett (American consul at Lima, Peru and also involved with the Panama Railroad Company),[1] Henry Chauncey, Mr. Alsop, G.G. Howland and S.S. Howland.

  1. ^ Bartlett, Thomas Edward (1802). The Bartletts: Ancestral, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical. Comprising an Account of the American Progenitors of the Bartlett Family, with Special Reference to the Descendants of John Bartlett, of Weymouth and Cumberland. Press of the Stafford Printing Company.