Bargum, (Henning) Frederik

Born 1733. Died c. 1800 (BioLek II)

Merchant in Copenhagen. By family related to Gustmeier, Carl Hieronymus who traded in timber and money (BioLek II). Gustmeier was married to Frederik Bargum's aunt [Gustmeier, Catharina]], and upon the death of Gustmeier, Frederik Bargum and his aunt, the widow, ran the House og Gustmeier & Bargum together in companionship. Bargum also married his aunt's daughter. (BioLek II)

Timeline
1753 - Bought a number of cotton textiles from the Asiatic Company ship PRINSESSE WILHELMINE CAROLINE's cargo (Moltke archive, no. 82)

1756 - Bought a number of cotton textiles from the Asiatic Company ship FREDERIK & LOUISE's cargo (Moltke archive, no. 94)

1760 - Named generaltobaksdirektør. This title meant he had monopoly of trade in tobacco, which was not receieved well in the community (BioLek II)

1761 - Passed the company on to fellow merchant Borre, Peter of the merchant house House of Borre & Fenger (BioLek II)

1762 - The company House og Gustmeier & Bargum was pushed out of the timber trade by Bodenhoff, Andreas (Gold in Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914, p. 65)

? - Bought the Frenchman's Douilhac manufacture of hats (BioLek II)

1764 - Was granted priviledge to keep running the manufacture of hats. He also had a fishbone manufacture (BioLek II)

1764 - c.: Wealthy enough to contract Jardin, J. N. to build a mansion in Amaliegade, the so-called Gule Palæ (BioLek II)

1765 - Granted oktroj to form Det danske Guineiske Kompagni, a partnership that traded slaves, ivory and sugar in West Africa and the West Indies (BioLek II)

1772 - Listed as subscribent, i.e. contributor, to a reprint of Ludvig Holberg’s comic epos Peder Paars (Holberg, Peder Paars, 1772)