Isaac Tyson

Profile

Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1792

Birth Place: Baltimore

Death Date: 1861

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Committee on Indian Concerns , Society of Friends

Notes: Quaker businessman, held a virtual monopoly on world supplies of chromium minerals in the mid 19th century. Grandson of Elisha Tyson, son of Jesse Tyson. One of the original members of the BYM Indian Committee.

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