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112:, in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hesse on the 10th March 1862. His parents were Wilhelm (Guillaume) Charles Frédéric Achilles and Ernestine Weisbecker. Little is known about his education and early life, but at the age of 31 he came to London and for the first two years he worked with the iron ore trader Herman at H. Borner & Co in
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