[1] Other participants included Edwin B. Aldrich, J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller Jr.[2] The company was incorporated in Albany, New York on 22 October 1906.
[3] Also in 1906, King Leopold II arranged the creation of the Sociètè Internationale Forestière et Minière du Congo (Forminière).
[4] In November 1906 the American Congo Company was granted a 99-year licence to gather rubber and other vegetable products over a tract of land covering 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2).
[2] The result of the exposé was that the American government now had good reason to look into what Leopold II of Belgium was doing in the Congo Free State.
[11] In 1921 the American Congo Company forfeited its forest products license in exchange for full ownership of 386 square miles (1,000 km2) and exclusive rights for 91 years to diamond mines it found elsewhere.