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3 unusual facts about Alaska Commercial Company


Alaska Commercial Company

After the 1867 purchase of Alaska by the United States, the firm of Hutchison, Kohl & Company, including Hayward Hutchison, William Kohl, and Louis Sloss, bought the Russian-American Company.

Chirikof Island

Alaska Commercial Company acquired the assets of the Russian-American Company in 1867 when Russia sold the territory to America.

Richardson Clover

She was the daughter of Senator John F. Miller from California, the wealthy former head of the Alaska Commercial Company.


Fort Yukon, Alaska

While the post was in Russian America, the Hudson's Bay Company continued to trade there until the American traders expelled it in 1869, following the Alaska Purchase when the Alaska Commercial Company took over the post.


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