An edition of Stephen Girard
(2015)
Stephen Girard
America's colonial olympian, 1750-1831
by James J. Raciti
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"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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Stephen Girard: America's colonial olympian, 1750-1831
2015, Sunstone Press
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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.
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