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Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

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Description

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Inventory of the Loum Snow Business Records

In the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library

Biographical Note

Loum Snow was born in Acushnet, Massachusetts, in 1840. After receiving his education at local schools, he entered business with Thomas Cook (1801-ca. 1891) under the name of Cook & Snow, merchant tailors and dry goods merchants active at New Bedford, Mass. The firm also acted as agent for such whaling vessels as the Huntress (Bark) and Ohio (Bark). By 1859, Snow had left the firm of Cook & Snow to become a whaling agent on his own. His son, Loum Snow (1840-1916), became a partner in the whaling agent firm of Loum Snow & Son about 1867. After the elder Snow's death in 1871, Loum Snow continued the firm under the name under Loum Snow & Son until 1903, taking his brother, Robert Snow (1854-ca. 1906) as a partner from 1881-1891, and employing his son, Loum Snow Jr. (b. 1865), as clerk and bookkeeper. Vessels for which the firm acted as agent include the whaling barks Norman, President, and Seneca.

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Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection consist of ship's papers of seven vessels for which Loum Snow or his partners acted as agent. These documents, dating 1850-1890, include account books, crew accounts, a copy of a marine protest extension, a court case, an outfitting book, and similar material for the barks Active, Arnolda, Helen Snow, Huntress, Norman, Ohio, President, and Seneca. Vessels have been arranged alphabetically with materials for each vessel chronologically arranged.

Arrangement of Collection

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Information for Researchers

Access to Collections

Unrestricted. Consult librarian for an appointment.

Preferred Citation

New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library Mss 70, [sub-group, series, sub-series, folder/volume as appropriate], [item]

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Administrative Information

Provenance

The bulk of material in this collection was given to the Old Dartmouth Historical Society by the estate of Andrew Snow Jr. on 17 March 1919. Individual items were gifts of Robert D. Blake in December 1930, and of Charles R. Phillips Sr. on 30 April 1965.

Processing Information

Processed by: Barbara E. Austen, ca. 1982

Encoded by: Mark Procknik, 15 February 2012

Funds for processing this collection were provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Description

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Subject Headings

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Vessel Names

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