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Life of Capt. Joseph Fry, the Cuban martyr: being a faithful record of his remarkable career from childhood to the time of his heroic death at the hands of Spanish executioners.
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Life of Captain Fry, the Cuban martyr: recounting his experience as an officer in the U.S. and Confederate navies, and revealing much of the inner history and secret marine service of the late civil war in America.
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Captain Fry, the Cuban martyr.
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Intended as a memorial to Captain Joseph Fry (born Tampa Bay, Fl., June 14,1826), this volume begins with his biography, tracing his life and career during and after the American Civil War. It then details the confiscation of Fry's ship, the Virginius, in 1873, for running arms to Cuba during its insurrection against Spain, an event which brought about Captain Fry's subsequent execution. The narrative continues with an account of the U.S. reaction to Spain's seizure of the ship, and its eventual return to the United States. Includes the text of lett
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Joseph Fry (tea merchant)
For other people named Joseph Fry, see Joseph Fry (disambiguation).
Joseph Fry (21 April 1777 – 28 August 1861) was a tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker.[1][2] He was the husband of the prison reformerElizabeth Fry.
Parental family
Joseph Fry's father was William Storrs Fry (1736–1808) who moved from Wiltshire to London and established a company dealing in tea and banking services, later called W. S. Fry & Sons. William married Elizabeth Lambert in 1767, who was, like him, a "plain" Quaker.
Joseph was born in London 21 April 1777, the youngest of the three sons, and three daughters of William and Elizabeth Fry. One of his brothers died aged 27. He and his older brother, William Fry (1768–1858), joined the family business. However, their mother is credited with "the financial acumen which had enabled money both to be acquired and prudently managed: it was a quality which perhaps neither of the sons inherited".[3]
William Storrs Fry's brother Joseph Fry (1728–1787) founded the chocolate factory that w
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Quakers in the World
The Fry Family, Chocolate Makers
Joseph Fry 1728 – 1787) was born in Wiltshire into a Quaker family. After training as a doctor and apothecary he opened a small business in Bristol in 1753. At this time Bristol was a major port where ships arrived from and departed to the New World.One of the commodities that they brought was cocoa. Joseph began to sell cocoa from his shop in about 1756. He was convinced of its health giving properties and saw it as a nutritious alternative to alcohol. In 1761 Joseph Fry and his partner John Vaughan acquired the patent for a water-powered machine that could grind the cocoa flakes to a fine powder and thus produce a superior drink. In 1777 he moved the chocolate works to larger premises on the banks of the river Frome which supplied the water to power the chocolate grinding machines.
After Joseph’s death in 1787 the business was taken over by his wife Anna and their son Joseph Storrs Fry I (1769 – 1835), who made some significant innovations. The water suppl
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