Mordecai & Co.

On East Bay.

A listing proves a year, not a span. A house in the 1854 book and the 1858 Review was there in 1854 and in 1858. The years between are not evidenced here, and nothing on this page should be read as saying the firm traded through them.

1854

• Agents, steam ship Isabel, Charleston to Havanathe editor’s noticeSouthern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, 1854, p. 330Wm. Rollins, Commandereditorial notice; card p.334 and p.337
• Agents, U. S. Mail steam ship Isabel, Charleston–Havana via Key West 110 East BaySouthern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, 1854, p. 334Wm. Rollins, Commanderleaves 4th and 19th; connects at Havana with U. S. Mail Steam Ship Company's line for San Francisco via Aspinwall
• Auction and Commission Merchants 110 East BaySouthern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, 1854, p. 337M. C. Mordecai; I. E. Hertz; J. A. Enslow; I. R. Mordecaimerchandise of every description sold on commission

On Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a tertiary source. A link is given only where the article names this house or a principal of it in Charleston; it says nothing about the years the house traded. One sentence is quoted from the article as it stood on the date shown, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Moses Cohen Mordecai an article about this house or its principal — the card names the firm as agents for the steamship Isabel, his shipFor example, the Isabel, named in honor of his wife, was used to remove Major Robert Anderson (1805–1871) from Fort Sumter at the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1861.Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-23, read 2026-09-01; CC BY-SA 4.0

Possibly the same house in the 1852 directory

Entries that share a surname with this firm on the same street. Matched on those two things only; the directory and the advertisement have not been reconciled, and a reader should compare the lines.

• Mordecai, M C com mcht 1 10 East Bay res. 43 Meeting Streading uncertainMordecai, M C com mcht 1 10 east bay 43 meeting st