J. H. Winchester & Company was founded by James Henry Winchester (1824-1913) in New York City in 1856 (incorporated in 1913). J. H. Winchester & Company was a cargo agent for the United States Shipping Board post World War I, in the 1920s. Winchester raised and born in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, on June 4, 1824. He moved to the United States in 1831 and settled in Eastport, Maine. Winchester completed the United States naturalized prossess on July 7, 1845 and became a US citizen. He moved to New York and became a ship captain. In New York became a partner in two brigantine sailing ships, one the Mary Celeste. The Mary Celeste was found hastily abandoned in 1872 between the Azores and Portugal. The abandonment is still a mystery today.[1][2]
James Henry Winchester died in 1913 and Winchester Noyes became the J. H. Winchester & Company president. Noyes was born in Brooklyn on March 14, 1878. He became an ensign in the United States Navy on April 3, 1917 and departed the Navy in 1918. He ran the J. H. Winchester & Company during World War II and died in 1954.
J. Barston Smull joined J. H. Winchester & Company in 1907 a vice president, be was the vice president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.[3]
^World War II U.S. Navy Armed Guard and World War II U.S. Merchant Marine, 2007-2014 Project Liberty Ship, Project Liberty Ship, P.O. Box 25846 Highlandtown Station, Baltimore, MD [1]Archived 2022-05-14 at the Wayback Machine