Minor Cooper Keith
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Minor Cooper Keith was an American businessman whose railroad, commercial agriculture, and cargo liner enterprises had a major impact on the national economies of the Central American countries, as we
Keith in 1917
Board of Trustees of the Heye Foundation, 1920. From left to right: Minor C. Keith, James Bishop Ford, George Gustav Heye, Frederic Kimber Seward, Frederick Kingsbury Curtis, Samuel Riber, Jr., Archer Milton Huntington, and Harmon Washington Hendricks.
Henry Meiggs
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Henry Meiggs, known in Chile and Peru as Enrique Meiggs, was an American businessman.
Minor Cooper Keith
…countries, as well as on the Caribbean region of Colombia. Keith's work on the Costa Rican railroad to the Caribbean, a project begun by his uncle Henry Meiggs, led him to become involved in the large-scale export of bananas to the United States. In 1899, Keith's banana-trading concerns were absorbed into the…
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Meiggs Wharf
Punishment of peons employed by railroad tycoon Henry Meiggs in Chile or Peru, 1862