William Henry Low

William Henry Low

William Henry Low (1795 – March 22, 1834)^[1]^[2] was an American entrepreneur, businessman and trader from Salem, Massachusetts, who was one of the American pioneers of the Old China Trade. In 1828, having settled in Canton, China, Low was admitted as a partner of the Russell & Co. trading company, as a replacement chosen by founding partner Philip Ammidon. Senior partner of the firm, he retired in 1833 after having recruited his nephew, Abiel Abbot Low, and died in the Cape of Good Hope the following year; while returning home in the company of his wife and niece, the diarist Harriet Low^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Interpreting Macau through the Journals of Harriett Low and Rebecca Chase Kinsman" (PDF). Macau Polytechnic Institute. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
1 2 "SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH-L Archives". ancestry.com. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
↑ "Book review of Everything in Style: Harriet Low's Macau". Retrieved January 8, 2012. .

European and American trade in Qing China

Topics	Canton System Cohong East India Company James Flint Old China Trade Thirteen Factories

Chinese Hongs	Ewo Hong Howqua

Foreign Hongs	Augustine Heard and Company Augustine Heard Albert Heard Dent & Co. Lancelot Dent John Dent Dodwell & Co. Gibb, Livingston & Co. Hugh Bold Gibb Jardine, Matheson & Co. William Jardine James Matheson John Abel Smith Magniac & Co. Daniel Beale Thomas Beale Thomas Chaye Beale Hollingworth Magniac Olyphant & Co. David Olyphant Robert Morrison Olyphant Russell & Company Robert Bennet Forbes John Cleve Green Abiel Abbot Low William Henry Low Samuel Russell Russell Sturgis Shewan, Tomes & Co. Robert Shewan David Sassoon & Co. David Sassoon

Chinese Officials	Lin Zexu

Key Locations	Amoy Canton Foochow Hong Kong Macau Shanghai

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