W. H. Paxton
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W. H. Paxton
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William Henry Paxton was a prominent businessman in the early days of Mackay, Queensland. He was born in about 1844 in Berwick, Northumberland to Thomas Paxton and Mary Louisa Pease. Little is known of his earliest days in Australia, but he arrived in Mackay in 1874 as assistant to Robert Jonathan Jeffray of Wm. Sloan and Co., a Melbourne merchant house. In 1876, he took over the store of sugar grower Arthur Kemmis and expanded the business as merchant and shipping agent, with close links to the
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Australian business merchant (1844–1887)
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2023-11-26T05:15:10Z
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