Timothy Meaher (1812 – 3 March 1892) was an American slave trader, son of an Irish immigrant father and an Anglo-Irish American mother. He was one of eight children and he was raised in rural Whitefield, Maine. [1] In 1835, Timothy and his brother James left Maine for Mobile Alabama.

Oct 29, 2022 · Decades after Congress outlawed the international slave trade, the Clotilda sailed from Mobile on a trip funded by Timothy Meaher, whose descendants still own millions of dollars’ worth of real...

He was a white-American 19th-century slaver, businessman, and landowner. From Whitfield, Maine, he was the son of James and Susannah Millay Meaher. James & Susannah were both born in Ireland. He came to Mobile, Alabama, around 1836 and owned a slave ship, the Clotilda.

Nov 20, 2023 · The descendants of Alabama slave owner Timothy Meaher –who hired Capt. William Foster to smuggle 110 captive Africans to Mobile on his ship, Clotilda– had for years refused to meet with the...

Dec 12, 2022 · Timothy Meaher was the steamship owner who financed and brought 110 Africans from Benin to Mobile follow a harrowing journey aboard the Clotilda more than 162 years ago, many years after...

Nov 20, 2023 · Descendants of Timothy Meaher – who had hired Capt. William Foster to smuggle 110 captive Africans to Mobile on his ship, Clotilda - were represented on the show and in the July 2023 first-time meeting by two Meahers: Meg, an accountant, and her sister Helen, an attorney.

Nov 20, 2023 · The story of the Clotilda began when Timothy Meaher, a wealthy businessman, hired Captain William Foster to illegally smuggle a ship load of captive Africans from the Kingdom of Dahomey,...

Sep 20, 2022 · Timothy Meaher was a wealthy American human trafficker, slave trader and businessman who built and owned the last known US slave-ship Clotilda and was responsible for smuggling 110 African men, women, and children into the United States in 1860.

Jun 17, 2021 · Up until Thursday, the descendants of Timothy Meaher – the wealthy steamship owner who financed the last slave ship to arrive in the United States -- remained silent as talks continue to ramp...

Timothy Meaher, a shipbuilder and landowner; his brother Byrnes (also spelled Burns) Meaher; John Dabey; and others invested money to hire a crew and captain for one of Meaher's ships to go to Africa and buy Africans enslaved by the chiefs of Dahomey.