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, and that of Jonathan Ogden, whose family's cloth-manufacturing business was based in

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, but was himself based mostly in

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. The firm, which also had dealings with Baltic companies, engaged in trade both in cotton and flour. Bolton was apprenticed to the firm of William Rathbone around the same time as were the future

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and

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, and the three remained friends thereafter. He died on 30 March 1862.

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