One of a Thousand a Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representa
One of a Thousand a Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representa
John C John Clark Rand
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He was captain of the " Levant " when twenty. Since that time he has visited many ports, and been participator in some of the ROBERT B. FORBES. most stirring adventures that can happen to travelers by land or sea. At the age ol twenty-six he commanded his own ship, at twenty-eight he abandoned the sea as a profession, and at thirty-six was at the head of the house of Russell & Company, the largest American house in China. In 1832 he returned home, and on the 20II1 ol January. [834, married Rose... Green, daughter of John Smith. Their surviving children are : Robert Bennett, Jr. , Edith 1'erkins, and James Murray Forbes, several having died m infancy. In 1S47 Mr. Forbes participated in the humane and timely act of forwarding sup- plies to the Irish, who at that time were suffering all the horrors of famine and fever. A petition had been presented to Congress by Commodore De Kay, and through the influence of Robert C. Win- throp, an amendment to it was carried through, granting the " Macedonian " to De Kay, and the "Jamestown" to Mr.
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