Clement Acton Griscom was a prominent American

United States

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 Quaker

Religious Society of Friends

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 businessman and nineteenth century shipping

Shipping

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 magnate.

Biography

He was the President of the International Navigation Co., and by extension, the Red Star Line

Red Star Line

The Red Star Line was an ocean passenger line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium...

 and the American Line

American Line

The American Line was a shipping company based in Philadelphia that was founded in 1871. It began as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, although the railroad got out of the shipping business soon after founding the company...

 from 1888 to the 1902 merger into the International Mercantile Marine, and also helped to create those companies, originally serving as Vice-President from their foundation in 1871. He is noteworthy for his efforts to build an all-American merchant marine to rival those of shipping powers Britain

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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 and Germany

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, and was instrumental in convincing J. Pierpont Morgan to finance the creation of the IMM shipping trust company

Trust (19th century)

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. He later served as the IMM's first President. Griscom established and owned a private hunting plantation north of Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee, Florida

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 called Horseshoe Plantation

Horseshoe Plantation

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He died of a stroke

Stroke

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at the age of 71.