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6 unusual facts about Percival Farquhar


Acesita

Acesita was founded in the 1940s, among the cofounders was Percival Farquhar and got into the stainless steel business in the late 1970s.

Caribbean Brazilian

The enterprise was first a British project but later was controlled by the American Percival Farquhar who had a Brazilian business empire.

Percival Farquhar

In 1911, Farquhar purchased from the firm Prado, Chaves & Cia control over the Companhia Balneária de Santo Amaro, founded in 1892 which under the direction of Councillor Antonio Prado had been created to organize a tourist beach resort in the place that is today the center of Guarujá.

After the revolution of 1930, the government of Getúlio Vargas constrained the areas in which he could work, and Farquhar decided to leave Brazil.

Tese de Mestrado, Departamento de História da Faculdade de Letras, Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da USP, São Paulo, 2006

Treaty of Petrópolis

The contract for the Madeira-Mamoré railway required by the treaty was won by another American, Percival Farquhar.



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