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Stephen Girard : America's colonial olympian, 1750-1831
"Biography of a Colonial/Revolutionary-era American patriot, philanthropist, and founder of Girard College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, by the early eighteen hundreds, had become the richest man in America"--
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Sante Fe :
Sunstone Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Childhood : Chartons, France, 1750-1764
- Young business man, 1764-1774
- A new nation, 1774-1776
- Marriage, 1776-1777
- Mount Holly : happiness and turmoil for newlyweds, 1777-1778
- Mary Girard's illness : partnership problems, 1778
- Privateering and piracy, 1778-1785
- Global trade, 1785-1793
- Family and friends : slave uprising, 1791
- Outbreak of yellow fever, 1793
- Banking : domestic arrangements : foreign policies, 1793-1831
- Farmer : Water Street house : more politics, 1795-1830
- Girard's estate planning : family needs : lifestyle, 1795-1799
- The War of 1812 : real estate interests, 1812
- Accident and death, 1830-1831
- The execution of the will : college construction planned, 1831
- Girard College, 1832
- The aftermath : building for the future, 1832.