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Richard Slingsby Abraham (1851-1942) was a founder of the stock and station agency known as Abraham and Williams Limited. In 1876, when manager of the Bulls branch of the Bank of New Zealand, Mr Abraham acquired an interest in the firm of Stevens and Gorton, stock and station agents, but in 1883 the partnership Abraham was a well known resident of Palmerston North for many years, erecting a two-storey wooden house on the site of the Massey University campus, called 'Tiritea'.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Pi 110
Date
circa 1910
Digitisation ID
2013N_Pi110_007476
Held In
"Coolstore"

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moustache,
people,
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