Daniel James (businessman)

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Daniel James was one of the three founder partners of Phelps, Dodge amp Co., a New York trading organisation established in 18334, exporting cotton to England and importing manufactured goods in return such as tin, tin plate, iron and copper. James was born in America but was to live in Liverpool for forty seven years running the British side of the business called Phelps, James amp Co.160 The company was to dominate the export market of tinplate from the United Kingdom for threequarters of a century at a time when Wales was the centre of world production.

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