Posts belonging to Category Skull and Bones

American Imperialisim

In 1859 a U.S. warship, the San Jacinto bombarded the Taku Forts in support of British and French troops on the ground during the Second Opium War.  Samuel Wadsworth Russell, founder of Russell & Company, the largest and most important American trading house in China from 1842 to its closing in 1891 needed protection for [...]

Monsters of Industry: Monsanto

Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901, by John Francis Queeny. He gave the company his wife’s maiden name. His father in law was Emmanuel Mendes de Monsanto a wealthy sugar financier active in Vieques, Puerto Rico and based in St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies. The company’s first product was the [...]