Primrose, James, 1803-1882

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Primrose, James, 1803-1882

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        1803-1882

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        James Primrose was born in 1803 in Scotland.

        He was a merchant. He moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he was an agent of the Bank of Nova Scotia. He founded a firm Primrose Sons, involved in insurance, banking, lumber, shipbuilding, coal mines, and the Marine Railroad Company. His sons Clarence Primrose (1830-1902) and Howard Primrose (1833-1906) became the other senior partners. After his retirement in 1864, the firm became Primrose Brothers. The same year William Norman Rudolph (1835-1886) made the transition from the clerk of the firm to merchant partner, and they became known as Primrose & Rudolph.

        In 1829, he married Annie Gordon (–1834), and in 1834, he married Eliza Brown. He died in 1882 in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

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