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John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
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German-born American businessman (1763–1848)
John Jacob Astor was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor. Astor made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by exporting opium into the Chinese Empire, and by investing in real estate in or around New York City during the late 18th…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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American fur-trading company (1810–13)
The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was based in the Pacific Northwest, an area contested over the decades among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)