Republic of Money: Dulles, DuPont, Brown Brothers, CIA: Pt. 1

[Hannah Bell]

Allen Welsh & John Foster Dulles ran the CIA & State
Department in the 1950's, and were involved in most foreign
policy events of the period, e.g. the overthrow of various
governments and the occasional assassination.  

Sister Eleanor worked at State too, where she helped found the
IMF, and with German reconstruction.

The Dulles siblings didn't gain their high offices completely
on their own merits. Their pedigrees include two earlier
Secretaries of State and other noteworthies. 

The family connections to power go back generations.  

Of special interest are ties to the house of Brown Brothers
(now BB-Harriman) and the DuPonts.



I.  The Paternal Great-Grands: Dulles, Heatly, Welsh, Maris



                         /Joseph Dulles (1751 Ireland)
                         |
            /Joseph Heatly Dulles (1795 SC)
            |            |
            |            \Sophia Heatly 
            |
Rev. John Welsh Dulles (1823 PA)
            |
            |             /John Welsh (1770)
            |             |
             \Margaret Mary Welsh (1797 PA)
                          |
                          \Jemima Maris (1775)




Dulles/Heatly

Great-great grandpa Joseph Dulles immigrated to South Carolina
in 1779 (age 28) with enough capital to establish himself in
business selling luxury goods to the planter elite.

He married the daughter of a cotton plantation owner whose
"extensive holdings" originated in land grants going
back to the first settlement of South Carolina.  

His business interests (which included trade in cotton and
other slave goods) expanded into Philadelphia, where he moved
in 1812. (There may have been an additional reason for the
move; to take advantage of the business opportunities
presented during the War of 1812.)

Their daughter Mary married the Carolinian planter and solon
Langdon Cheves. Cheves' resume began at Adger & Sons,
Brown Brothers' South Carolina agents.  Cheves later became
President of the Second Bank of the US 1819-1822.  

The Second Bank, under Cheves' successor Nicholas Biddle, was
the one President Andrew Jackson set out to destroy in the
"Bank War" of 1832-1836.  

"The Bank," Jackson said, "is trying to kill
me, but I will kill it."  In the end, he did.



                /Joseph Dulles (1751 Ireland)
                |
Mary Elizabeth Dulles (1789) + Langdon Cheves (1776 SC)
                |
Joseph Heatly Dulles (1795 SC) + Margaret Welsh
                |
                \Sophia Heatly



In 1814 Joseph Dulles' son Joseph Heatly Dulles graduated from
Yale, where he'd belonged to the "Society of Brothers in
Unity". Depending on who you believe, the SBU was either
a Skull & Bones-like "secret society," or an
ordinary debating club.  

Dulles entered his father's firm and eventually expanded it,
adding coal, iron, and other holdings to the original
mercantile firm.  

Joseph inherited a Carolina plantation, which he reportedly
"managed in a most humane manner." 
Tax rolls show him to have been one of the richest
Philadelphians of his era. 

He also found time for civic and religious activities.  He was
one of the leaders of the 19th-century "Sunday School
Movement," and for 50 years the manager of the American
Sunday School Union (ASSU).

The ASSU, still extant today as the American Missionary
Fellowship (>300 missionaries), was founded in 1817 as a
mission and church-seeding group organized "to carry the
Gospel to the frontier."  

Among its largest funders were John A. Brown (b. 1788) and his
son Alexander Brown (b. 1815), scions of the Brown Brothers
banking dynasty John's father Alexander (b. 1764) founded in
1800.  

Today it exists as the private banking firm of Brown Brothers
Harriman, with $44 billion in (total) assets under management
(2007).

John Brown was ASSU's President from 1861 until his death in
1872, and left $10,000 to the organization in addition to
earlier gifts.  Son Alex was a 30-year member who sat on all
its standing committees.  His donations totaled over $40,000. 


But this wasn't the first meeting of the extended Brown and
Dulles families, as we shall see.

[Hannah Bell]

1. Welsh/Maris 1825 Welsh-Brown partnership: Pt. 2

            /Joseph Heatly Dulles (1795 SC)
            |                            
            |
Rev. John Welsh Dulles (1823 PA)
            |
            |         /John Welsh (1770)
            |         |
            \Margaret Mary Welsh (1797 PA) 
                      |
                      \Jemima Maris (1775)



WELSH 

In 1819 Joseph H. Dulles married Margaret Welsh of
Philadelphia, whose roots were in the Brandywine Valley of
Pennsylvania and Delaware.  Her father, John Welsh, is
sometimes described as Delaware-born, sometimes as
English-born.  

What's certain is that he started his career with the shipping
merchant Joseph Russell, then with financier Robert Ralston
(b. 1761), of Philadelphia and Little Brandywine.  

Coincidentally, Ralston was a founder of the Second Bank of
the US (with financier Stephen Girard and others) -- the bank
Jackson fought, whose first President was JH Dulles'
brother-in-law Langdon Cheves.


After leaving Ralston's employ, Welsh founded J&W Welsh
with his brother William.  

The Welsh firm had two renumerative lines of business.  One
was the West Indies trade, which meant trading the slaves or
slave goods of the Caribbean plantation economy.  

The other was shipping cheap labor from Ireland to the
Brandywine Valley, often as an agent for the DuPont family.


DuPONT

The French aristocrat Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours came
to the US in 1799 in flight from the guillotines of the French
revolution.  

By 1802 he'd established a gunpowder works on Brandywine Creek
in Delaware, not too far from the milling enterprises of John
Welsh's wife's Maris clan.  Government contracts tripled
DuPont's sales by his second year in business.


The DuPont connection was helpful when John Welsh wanted to
start his own bank:

"...organized in August 1803 at Welsh's countinghouse
with a capitalization of $1 million...the bank was able to
survive with the support of prominent customers like
E.I.DuPont..."
                                                 

Welsh's "Bank of Philadelphia" became the
"Philadelphia National Bank," then "PNB,"
and is now "CoreStates," a bank holding company with
1996 assets of 45 billion dollars.


The DuPont connection became a family connection when
Elizabeth Canby Bradford married Alexis Irenee DuPont,
director of DuPont 1890-1904.  Alexis (b. 1843) was the
great-grandson of E.I. DuPont, and Elizabeth was the
great-great granddaughter of J&W Welsh partner Samuel
Canby (b. 1751).  

Canby was also the first cousin once removed of Margaret
Welsh's mother, Jemima Maris.  
         
              
MARIS/BROWN BROTHERS

The Marises, neighbors of the DuPonts, were among the earliest
settlers of the Brandywine Valley and owned much of its
valuable river front, where they established grist and
sawmills.  They were extensively intermarried with other
"first" families of the area, like the Canbys and
Shipleys. 

Thus Joseph Shipley Jr. (b. 1795), another cousin of Jemima
Maris, came to work for Joseph Welsh at J&W Welsh.  Welsh
sent Shipley to Liverpool as his business agent.  

Liverpool had been the European hub of the slave trade until
1807, when England abolished slavery. But even afterward, the
city's commerce revolved around cotton and slave goods &
the businesses and shipping routes forged through the slave
trade.  

In Liverpool Shipley met William Brown (b. 1784), son of
Alexander Brown (1764), the Irish linen merchant who
immigrated to Baltimore (another slave trading hub) in 1800
and founded Alex Brown & Sons, the beginning of the Brown
Brothers financial dynasty.

Brown & Shipley was established in Liverpool in 1825; its
initial business was cotton trading (& reportedly,
financing slave ships as well).  

Brown & Shipley is said to have moved the major portion of
US cotton traded to England at the time of the Civil War.  


JH Welsh provided part of Brown-Shipley's start-up capital,
and kept an interest in the business on that basis.

The Brown connection, like the DuPont connection, continued
through the generations.  

John Welsh's g-grandson William S. Stokes (b. 1893), for
example, married Ruth Coxe, the great granddaughter of Brown
Brothers partner Alexander Brown (1815), grandson of founder
Alexander Brown (1764).  

Alex (1815) Brown's wife Catherine Neilson was daughter of
Abraham Schuyler Neilson (1792).  

A.S. Neilson's neice, Cornelia Neilson (1814) married Orlando
Harriman (1813), whose grandson William Averell Harriman
(1891) would become the "Harriman" in "Brown
Brothers, Harriman".  


Alex Brown     Neilson + Voorhees
|               |             |
John Brown    AS Neilson     John Neilson
|               |             |
Alex Brown + Cath. Neilson    Cor. Neilson + Harriman
|                             |
Isabel Brown + Coxe          EH Harriman + Averell
|                             |
Coxe + Lovering            William Averell Harriman   
|
Stokes + Ruth Coxe



    Welsh+Maris     Brown + Coxe
    |         |              |                                
           
Welsh+Dulles  Welsh(1805)   Brown+Coxe 
    |         |              |     
Dulles     Welsh+Stokes   Coxe+Lovering
    |            |          |
Dulles           Stokes + Coxe
    |
Dulles siblings 





John Welsh's son John Jr. (1805) was Minister to England for
President Rutherford Hayes("Minister to St. James").
 His son John Lowber Welsh was with the family firm J&W
Welsh & Co, by then associated with Drexel & Co.  

JL Welsh reorganized the Pennsylvania-Reading Railroad with
John C. Bullitt & JP Morgan, representing a
"Syndicate" of 7 investors including:  John Garrett
(Shipley family relative), Samuel Shipley (Shipley family),
& Henry DuPont.



DULLES BROTHERS:

Continuing the connections into the post-war world, we find:


            /Joseph Heatly Dulles (1795 SC)
            |                            
            |
Rev. John Welsh Dulles (1823 PA)
            |
            |         /John Welsh (1770)
            |         |
            \Margaret Mary Welsh (1797 PA) 
                      |
                      \Jemima Maris (1775)



John Welsh Dulles (1823 PA) + Winslow (also missionary family)
|
Allen Macy Dulles + Edith Foster
|
Dulles siblings 



REV. JOHN WELSH DULLES

Grandfather Rev. John W. Dulles, missionary/Head of Missions
with the Brown-financed Sunday School Union/Missionary
Fellowship his father presided over. Yale 1844 & President
of "Brothers in Unity," the same pre-Skull &
Bones student club/secret society his father had belonged to.

He married Harriet Winslow, daughter of Miron Winslow, a
missionary to India connected to the Scudder missionary
dynasty:

http://famousamericans.net/mironwinslow/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scudder_family_of_missionaries_in_India


REV. ALLEN MACY DULLES

Father Rev. Allen Macy Dulles(1854): Theologian, minister,
Princeton (Presbyterian split of disgruntled Yalies), U. of
Gottingen, U. of Leipzig. 

Head of Theology Dept. at Auburn Theological Seminary. ATS
(still exists) trained ministers.  William Adams Brown, later
president of Yale Corp, son of BROWN BROTHERS partner John
Crosby Brown & grandson of Brown Brothers (NYC) founder
James Brown, worked there during Dulles' tenure. Dulles'
brother Joseph Heatly II also worked at ATS for most of his
career.

Allen Macy Dulles married Edith Foster, daughter of John
Watson Foster, US Minister to Mexico, Spain, Russia &
Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison.  

Edith's sister Eleanor m. Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson's
Secretary of State.  Lansing set up the first Bureau of Secret
Intelligence (spy desk) in the State Dept, now known as the
U.S. Diplomatic Security Service, State Dept's police,
intelligence & counterintelligence services.


DULLES SIBLINGS

1. John Foster Dulles (1888): Princeton, Geo. Washington U.
Law School

Sullivan & Cromwell law firm (today = 15th biggest in
world), where his client list included BROWN BROTHERS Harriman
& Standard Oil.


(On January 1st, 1931, Brown Brothers And Company merged with
Harriman Brothers & Company. Initial partners were:

W. Averell Harriman (son of EH & brother of ER, below) 
E. Roland Harriman 
Moreau Delano (relative of FDR)
Thatcher M. BROWN Sr (BROWN BROTHERS family)
Prescott S. Bush (Bush family)
Granger Kent Costikyan (S&B 1929)
Louis Curtis 
Robert A. Lovett (Truman Secretary of State & son of EH
Harriman associate RS Lovett. Wife =
  Adelle Quartley BROWN (BROWN BROTHERS family).
Ray Morris 
Knight Woolley 


John Foster was: 

Hitler enthusiast circa 1934, Secretary of State under
Eisenhower, Boards of Carnegie & Rockefeller Foundations;
founding member Council on Foreign Relations.

Married Janet Pomeroy Avery, of the Pomeroy (NY) & Avery
(New England/NY) banking families (e.g. as in William AVERY
Rockefeller & Henry POMEROY Davison of JP Morgan).  

Her maternal grandfather was a banker, Congressman (1861-1869)
& the first VP & Counsel of American Express.  He was
from Auburn NY, home of the Auburn Theological Seminary, where
his father had been a divinity student.

Janet Avery's paternal grandfather was a utilities investor
& president of the First National Bank of Auburn.  His
wife was a daughter of the NY banker-philanthropist Najah
Taylor.  

Taylor's Seamen's Bank was incorporated 1829 NYC. Its 23
owner-incorporators included Anson Greene Phelps, founder of
Phelps-Dodge, originally a company which shipped cotton to
England in trade for metals, soon a stand-alone mining &
lumber company with international operations.  The Bisbee
Deportation (1917) was the work of Phelps-Dodge. 

http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/

Phelps partner & son-in-law William Earl Dodge was a major
funder of the Auburn Theological Seminary. 

Taylor's other banking venture (Trustee 1819-1860) was the
Bank for Savings, NY (1819-1936), billed as a "savings
bank for the poor".  

Among Taylor's co-trustees/officer were a Phelps & a
Dodge; James, John Crosby & Thatcher Magoun Brown of BROWN
BROTHERS; & Oliver Harriman, financier & uncle of EH
Harriman the railroad baron, whose daughter Emmeline married
William Earl Dodge III, & whose son William Averell was
the Harriman in BROWN BROTHERS, Harriman when Brown Brothers
merged with his own WA Harriman & Co. (partner Bert
Walker, George W Bush's great-grandfather). 


2.  Allen Welsh Dulles (1893): Princeton, Geo. Washington Law
School

US Diplomatic service: "responsible for reviewing and
rejecting Vladimir Lenin's application for a visa to the
US" 

Sullivan & Cromwell, where he helped the DUPONTS evade
post-WWI restrictions on selling arms to Germany.

Director, Council on Foreign Relations

Director, J. Henry Schroeder Bank, other personnel included
Percy Avery Rockefeller, grandson of William (John D's
brother), bank involved in the Bush/Thyssen Bank intrigue.

Office of Coordination of Information (COI) Head of Operations
1941; OSS, 1942; first civilian Director of CIA, 1953-1961. 
Forced to resign by Kennedy.

Warren Commission, 1963 

 

[Hannah Bell]

2. Take-away:

1.  The Dulles brothers' great-great grandfather John Welsh of
Philadelphia provided start-up capital for & had an
interest in Brown-Shipley (founded 1825), the Liverpool branch
of Brown Brothers.  Joseph Shipley was his wife's cousin,
& the Liverpool agent for his own business, J&W Welsh.

John Welsh + Maris
|
Margaret Welsh + JH Dulles
|
Rev. JW Dulles
|
Rev. AM Dulles
|
Dulles brothers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown,_Shipley_&_Co.


2.  Welsh shipped cheap Irish labor for the Duponts beginning
in the early 1800s & the Duponts had an interest in his
bank (Bank of Philadelphia, later PNB, now CoreStates).


3.  Business & family connections continued into
present-day times, e.g.:

Alex Brown     Neilson + Voorhees
|               |             |
John Brown    AS Neilson     John Neilson
|               |             |
Alex Brown + Cath. Neilson    Cor. Neilson + Harriman
|                             |
Isabel Brown + Coxe          EH Harriman + Averell
|                             |
Coxe + Lovering            William Averell Harriman   
|
Stokes + Ruth Coxe



  Welsh + Maris        Brown + Coxe
    |         |             |                               
Welsh+Dulles  Welsh(1805)   Brown+Coxe 
    |         |              |     
Dulles     Welsh+Stokes   Coxe+Lovering
    |            |          |
Dulles           Stokes + Coxe
    |
Dulles siblings 

[Hannah Bell]

3. jij

[Hannah Bell]

9. kk

[blindpig]

4. Nice work

Reminds me of the royal houses of Europe, pre-WWI.

K&r

[Hannah Bell]

8. yeah, it's a lot like that.

[loudsue]

5. Your research is awesome.

:hi: Thank you for doing that.

It makes me sick how we are all OWNED by a certain core group that has had us little consumer units by the short hairs our whole lives. They sold us the idea of the "American Dream" so that we'd continue to play their game.

[Hannah Bell]

15. Thanks, you're very kind. Makes me sick too, but I'd like younger people to be more aware of it.

[Vidar]

6. K&R.

[Octafish]

7. Dulles was very very.

Thank you, Hannah Bell, for the heads-up on the old school ties and blood lines.
Really look forward to reading the next installment.

For those new to the subjects:

Know your BFEE: Corrupt Craftsmen Hoover and Dulles

Vietnam and Iraq Wars Started by Same People

A fact curiously missing from American history and any mention of the Warren Commission

[bertman]

10. When I read this and other similar topics I wonder how in the hell we ever expect to get

out from under the thumbs of these murderous, but very well organized and skillful bastards. They have the money--pretty damn near ALL of it now--the politicians, the computerized voting machines (that they design and manufacture and we pay them for), the corporate clout, the military, the intelligence community, the police, and about 30% of the population.

It's very informative reading about all of this and I appreciate your efforts, but I want someone to tell me how we beat them. I thought that electing President Obama and a Democratic Congress would be a start, but so much for that!!

Rec.

[Hannah Bell]

12. Real answer? I think, myself, that one stops thinking in terms of saviors, & in that sense,

accepts "reality". It's depressing as hell, but once you get over it, it gives you a kind of strength.

Then, IMO, people need to organize, starting at the local level. People are very pissed off -- I hear it all the time -- & they *want* to act.

All the things people talk about here at DU -- dropping their banks, burning credit cards, writing legislators, withholding campaign donations, funding third parties, protests, teach-ins, "produce the note," sitting in in front of the homes of Wall Streeters, refusing to vacate foreclosed property, etc. -- could be useful acts, could spark imitation -- but not if they're only the acts of isolated individuals.

The PTB don't fear individuals. They fear organized people.

This is what's been lost since the 60s, & the older channels for organizing - workplaces, churches, clubs, etc. -- have been sort of colonized by the ptb & their ideology. The working-class culture of solidarity -- & *not* "going along to get along" with the bosses -- has been lost to some degree. But I don't think anything's going to change without a restoration. So long as we exist *only* as individuals, we're powerless, we feel powerless, & we're prey.

*They* are organized, & they act, knowingly or unknowingly, as predators, imo.

Hope that wasn't too sappy.

[bertman]

13. Not sappy at all. Sounds like a good start. Not to be negative, but they have figured out how

to co-opt the leaders of organizations that threaten them, whether by bribing or intimidation or murder. It's going to take a lot of very courageous people to put the stops on this.

Thanks for the info and the ideas, Hannah Bell.

[Hannah Bell]

14. true - but it always was. we live in hope, & die in despair. If they get you to despair, they win.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7354809

[bertman]

16. Well said.

[leftstreet]

11. K&R

[MinM]

17. Mrs Allen Welsh Dulles happened to be Ruth Paine's BFF...

BTW :pals:

Ruth Paine


The Role Of Intelligence In Policy Making: Allen W. Dulles (Harvard 12-13-63)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=209669&mesg_id=277279

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Hannah Bell wrote:

He also found time for civic and religious activities. He
was one of the leaders of the 19th-century "Sunday
School Movement," and for 50 years the manager of the
American Sunday School Union (ASSU)...

liberal religious organizations allowed Allen Dulles an ideological mask over his operatives

A Certain Arrogance by George Michael Evica ... Reviewed by James DiEugenio

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