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Industry | Transportation |
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Founded | 1848 |
Defunct | 1949 (de jure), 1925 (de facto) |
Footnotes / references![]() House Flag |
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.