1932
TEXAS Galveston
Etats Unis d'Amérique
SHIPMENT AND CATTLE
Lykes Brothers
VOIR HISTORIQUE
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DESCRIPTION
ANNEE 1932
FORMAT A4
A ETE PLIE
LETTRE COMPLETE ET SIGNEE
AVEC PAVILLON HOUSEFLAG
LETTRE EN ANGLAIS
DOCUMENT EN BONNE CONDITION ET TRES FRAIS
LETTRE D AFFAIRE
CONCERNE Miguel Rose Mayol Arecibo Porto Rico
1932
SHIPMEN AND CATTLE
Kykes Brothers Texas
VOIR HISTORIQUE
VOIR SCANS
VOIR HISTORIQUE
HISTORIQUE
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Three years later, an office was opened in Galveston, Texas, and Lykes began offering general cargo transportation between the US Gulf and Caribbean ports. In ...
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1 mars 1995 — ... Lykes Brothers Steamship Company, remains at Galveston. Starting with the Norwegian SS Eidsiva, which made round trips from Galveston to ..
EXTRAIT
LYKES BROTHERS.Lykes Brothers, Incorporated, Houston, the Texas component of a family of companies originally involved in cattle and shipping, traces its history to seven brothers who established one of the largest United States fleets engaged in foreign trade under one management. The family's involvement with cattle shipping dates to the Civil War and Howell T. Lykes's service in the "Cow Cavalry" or "Commissary Battalion," developed by Capt. James McKay of Tampa, Florida. Under C. J. Munnerlyn, the cow cavalry rounded up and delivered cattle in Florida to feed beef-starved Confederate soldiers late in the war. McKay, who pioneered the cattle trade between Florida and Cuba before the war, ran the blockade frequently and was once arrested by the Union Navy. After the war, Lykes raised cattle and citrus fruit, using McKay's ships to transport them to Cuba before developing his own shipping line. Later he invested in steamships, and eventually purchased McKay's Florida shipping point. Lykes profited at the close of the Spanish-American War by supplying cattle to replace Cuban animals decimated by the war. Two of his seven sons, Fred and H. T., organized Lykes Brothers cattle brokers in Cuba in 1900, while family cattle holdings in Florida were incorporated as Lykes Company, a companion to the Cuban firm that later merged with the family's other business interests. Fred Lykes set up Matadero de Luyano, a Lykes-owned meatpacking plant, and Lykes Brothers bought its first Cuban ranches, the Cachual and the Estropajos, around 1902.
Lykes company involvement in Texas began in 1903 when James McKay Lykes, who had worked in the cattle business with his brothers in Cuba, made his first cattle-buying trips to Galveston.
