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4 unusual facts about Monjo Company


Justin Monjo

He is the son of children's author F. N. Monjo III and the great-great-grandson of arctic furrier F. N. Monjo.

Monjo Company

In early 1906 the company purchased a whaling schooner, the Era, from the Thomas Luce Company of New Bedford and hired Capt. George Comer as its master.

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In June 1913, Monjo sent two traders, George Cleveland and Mr. Bumpus to establish a trading post at Cape Fullerton.

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The Monjo company was founded by Nicholas F. Monjo, a Spanish immigrant from Algiers, shortly after the Civil War, in Brooklyn, New York, and became a substantial business by the early 1880s.



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