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Firm and Range of Business
Branches
from - to
Employees - alphabetical order
Remarks
Hagart & Co.
Export and Import Merchant
Kobe


Yokohama
1869-1888


1874-1883
A. A. Myers; N. Q. Guberres;


H. Ludwig; R. Trueb;
Proprietor: Hugh Walker Hagart
Hall, J. W.
Auctioneer and Commission Merchant;
Agents for Reuter’s Telegram Co.;
Globe Parcel Express;
Agent for General Life and Fire Assurance Co.;
Yokohama 1885 - 1904 ABBEY, David L. / ABBEY, F.H. / ABBEY, R. /
ABBEY, T. /
Proprietor: John W. Hall

Successor 1904 -
Abbey, Tom
Hall & Holz
General Drapers
Yokohama 1875 - 1876 Stewart, J. A. /
Havana Cigar Co. Yokohama 1872 - 1874 F. M. Jonas, sen. /
HBM-Military Mission Yokohama 1869 Fraser, A. /
Heard & Co.
[Augustine Heard & Co.]
Agents for
- China Traders’ Insurance Co.
- Liverpool and London and Globe Fire Insurance Co.
- Victoria Fire Insurance Co., Hong Kong
etc.

Yokohama


Kobe
1866 - 1876


1871 - 1873
Farley, G. /
FRASER, John Alexander /
GILLINGHAM, John Rowley /
JAMES, Frank Scott /

Liquidation in 1876

Hecht, Lilienthal & Co.
up to 1867 Yokohama # 164 a
from 1868 on Yokohama # 8

Merchants, specialized in Silk, from 1871 additionally Agents for the Compagnie Lyonnaise d' Assurances Maritimes
Yokohama 1865


1867-1870

1868-1875



Paul Brunat

F. Geisenheimer





from 1869 on Geisenheimer was the Manager.
Hegt & Co.
Merchant and Brewing Co.
Yokohama 1865 - 1874 E. Wiegand Proprietor:
HEGT, Marinus Johannes Benjamin Noordhoek

Paul Heinemann & Co.
Agents for China Traders’ Insurance Co.,
Imperial Fire Insurance Co.
Kobe 1879 - 1885 BAKER, Colgate /
DRUMMON, W. E. /
Henderson & West
Butchers and Naval Store Contractors
Yokohama 1862 Predecessor: Cameron & Co. (see also Allan Cameron)

From 01.11.1862 in operation.
Herb & Co.
Trade and Insurance Agency
Yokohama 1895 - 1902 LEVEDAG, Eduard Ignaz /

Hewett & Co.
General Merchants

Yokohama 1889 - 1892 Blundell, G. J. Manager
Heyn, Broeckelmann & Co.
Merchants
Kobe
1896 - 1897 Jonas, Louis /
Holme, Ringer & Co.
Import and Export Merchants
Nagasaki

Shimonoseki
1890 -

1895 -
EVANS, John R. /

Reid, N. B. /


Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

Yokohama


Kobe

1880 - 1901


1898 - 1900
Cameron, P. E. / Fraser, Henry William / GILLINGHAM, John / Reid, W. /
Horne, F. W.
Agent of American Machinery
Yokohama

Tokyo
Osaka
1901 ABBEY, F. H. /
Geo. W. van Hovenbergh & Co.
General Storekeeper
Yokohama 1869 - 1870 DAVIS, J. C. / Proprietor
Geo. W. van Hovenbergh
Howell & Co.
Trade and Insurance Agency
Agents for
Canton Insurance Office;
China Fire Insurance Co.;
China Mutual Steam Navigation Co.;
Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co.;
North China Insurance Co.;
Sub-Agents of Lloyds;
Sub-Correspondents Board of Underwriters, New York;
Yangtse Insurance Association; etc.
Hakodate


1895-1908 DRUMMOND, William Johann /
FRASER, Chas. I. /
Hudson, Malcolm & Co.
Merchants, Commission and Insurance Agency
Yokohama # 73

- Batavia Sea Fire Insurance Co.
- China Trans-Pacific S. S. Co.
- Lancashsire Fire Insurance Co.
Yokohama 1868-1874 Siebold, H. v. /
SPENCE, Edwin J. /
John Hudson; W. A. Malcolm - Proprietors
Hughes & Co.
Insurance Agency

Osaka
Kobe
1871 - 1873
1874 - 1893

Proprietor
Robert Hughes
Hughes, Cohen & Co.
Agentf for the
- Craig & Rose, Caledonian Oil and Colour Works
- Economic Life Asssurance Society
- Milner’s Safe Co., London
- Nobels’ Explosives Co., Glasgow

Kobe 1898 - 1901 Japanese staff Partners:
Robert Hughes
Otto Cohen
E. H. Hunter & Co.
Merchants
Osaka Iron Works
Osaka


Kobe


1888 -


1907 -
ELLERTON, James / SPENCE, G. M. /
SUMMERS, James jr. /


Hutchinson & Co.
Merchants
Agent for the
- Caledonian Insurance Co.
- General Life Assurance Co.
- Guardian Assurance Co.
- London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Co.
- Palatine Insurance Co.
- Phoenix Assurance Co. (General Agents for Japan)
- Provident Clerks’ Mutual Life Assurance Association
- World Marine Insurance Co.
Yokohama 1899 - 1908 DRUMMOND, Johan Frederick /
Proprietor:
J. D. Hutchinson
HOSPITALS
Name
Place
Period
Employees - alphabetical order
Remarks
Deutsches Marine-Lazarett Yokohama/
German Navy Hospital Yokohama
Yokohama, Bluff # 40 + 41 1876 - 1911 - Bense, K.
- Brettke, E.
- Conrad, M.
- Creutz, E. [KREUTZ]
- Falk, W.
- Guetschow, H., Head
- Harms, W.
- Huehne, A.
- Kirchner, A.
- Kleffel, R.
- Koch, Dr.
- Krauss, F.
- Kuegler, Dr.
- Matthiolius, H.
- Mietze, A.
- Richter, H.
- Rostock, A.
- Rumscheidt, F.
- Runkwitz, Dr.
- Schaefer, H.
- Scharfe
- Schlaffke, G.
- Schmidt, W.
- Steinsch, W.
- Trott
The German Navy Hospital
was established in 1876
by Dr. Guetschow, officially opened in 1878.
On 31.12.1911 it became unnecessary
due to the Imperial German Hospital of
Qingdao [Tsingtau].

see also German Navy Sea Post Office Yokohama
Kobe - International Hospital Kobe 1872 -
Board of Directors:
Lenz, T.
Yokohama General Hospital Yokohama 1869 - 1871 LOTZ, H. /
HOTELS
Hotel Name
Place
Period
Employees - alphabetical order
Remarks
Clarendon Hotel
Morris & Co.
Yokohama 1867 - 1868
Proprietor:
A. Morris / Thomas Davis /
Morris & Co.
Cliff House Hotel Nagasaki 1898 - 1922
Proprietor
Wilson + Charlotte Walker
Club - Hotel
Yokohama 1895 - UPTON, A. W. /

Yokohama # 5 (1895)

Dolphin-Hotel

Yokohama - 1884
bought by JAMES, Thomas
renamed to Old Japan Hotel - Japan Hotel
Hotel Europe
Yokohama 1888 -
Proprietors:
Bercovich & Donnenberg
Donnenberg, Joseph /
Falcon-Hotel Nagasaki 1870-1872
1873-1876
Proprietor: Carl Nickel
Mrs. E. N. Nickel
Grand Hotel

Yokohama # 18 - 20
Yokohama
1891 - 1907 Eppinger, Louis 1891-1907 / Eppinger, Louis - Manager 1891 - 1905,
Director 1906 - 1907
Davies, F. Director /
Hyogo-Hotel Kobe 1891 - 1893 Whymark, George Harvey /
Imperial Billiard Rooms

Yokohama # 42.
Yokohama 1898 UPTON, A. W.


International Hotel

Yokohama # 18
Yokohama 1870 Whymark, George / Proprietor:
W. Curtis /
Old Japan Hotel
1884 bought, 1885 renamed to

Japan Hotel

former Dolphin Hotel

Yokohama 1884 - 1887
Proprietor:
JAMES, Thomas
North German Hotel Yokohama 1872 - 1875 LOTZ, H. /
Occidental Hotel

Yokohama # 18

(successor of the International Hotel)
Yokohama 1874 - 1875 Young, Charlotte /
Oriental Hotel
Kobe 1907- Cameron, Burnet
Board of Directors
Berigny., V. F. Th. de
Woolley, Alf.

Phoenix Hotel

Yokohama 1905 Ringsted, E. H. (Hoene) / Proprietor:
C. B. Clausen
Tor Hotel Kobe 1908 HAPPER, J. St. / Proposer:
Christian Holstein
HAPPER, J. St. /
Arthur Greppi

see also: BARDENS, Frederick John