Author: Pennsylvania Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780332185996

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1922, Vol. 46 The son of Charles Willing, who was a leading merchant and twice Mayor of Philadelphia, and Anne Shippen, his wife, Thomas Willing was born in this city on the 19th day of December, 1731, and died here on the 19th of January, 1821, a century ago. At an early age he was sent to his Grandmother Willing to be educated at Bath, England. Later he went to school in London. He was entered as a student at law in the Inner Temple on the 5th of October, 1748. The legal training that he thus obtained stood him afterwards in good stead when he sat as a Judge of the Orphans' Court here in Philadelphia, and later as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province. His legal training was also of value to him in his mercantile career, in the important position of President of the Bank of North America, and after that in the equally respons ible post of President of the First Bank of the United States. Returning home to Philadelphia in 1749, Thomas Willing became a subscriber to the Assembly Dances, and in 1755 a manager of those entertainments that have become interwoven in the history of Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.