Pacific Mail Steamship Company

Pacific Mail Steamship Company
IndustryTransportation
Founded1848
Defunct1949 (de jure), 1925 (de facto)
Footnotes / references

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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.