Event Title
H.F. Alexander and the American Shipping Industry at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Location
Diamond 342
Start Date
30-4-2015 1:54 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 2:25 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
My research concentrated on the roll that my great-great-grandfather, Hubbard Foster Alexander, played in the American shipping industry at the dawn of the 20th century. As the founder of the Pacific Steamship Company, which at one point was responsible for sixty percent of freight traffic and ninety percent of passenger traffic between ports on the Pacific Coast, H.F. Alexander was a fundamental part in contributing to the industrialization of the Western United States. In my research I focused not only on learning who H.F. Alexander was, but how his career and personal life fit into a larger historical context including the industrialization of a nation, and the social experience at a time of great economic prosperity.
Faculty Sponsor
Elizabeth Leonard
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. History Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1539
H.F. Alexander and the American Shipping Industry at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Diamond 342
My research concentrated on the roll that my great-great-grandfather, Hubbard Foster Alexander, played in the American shipping industry at the dawn of the 20th century. As the founder of the Pacific Steamship Company, which at one point was responsible for sixty percent of freight traffic and ninety percent of passenger traffic between ports on the Pacific Coast, H.F. Alexander was a fundamental part in contributing to the industrialization of the Western United States. In my research I focused not only on learning who H.F. Alexander was, but how his career and personal life fit into a larger historical context including the industrialization of a nation, and the social experience at a time of great economic prosperity.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/327