William Henry Low

William Henry Low was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and trader from Salem, Massachusetts, who was one of the American pioneers of the Old [China Trade]. In 1828, having settled in Canton, China, Low was admitted as a partner of the Russell & Co. trading company, as a replacement chosen by founding partner Philip Ammidon. Senior partner of the firm, he retired in 1833 after having recruited his nephew, Abiel Abbot Low, and died in the Cape of [Good Hope] the following year; while returning home in the company of his wife and niece, the diarist Harriet Low