Stephen Girard
Stephen Girard

Author: George Wilson

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780938289562

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The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon

Final Report of the Building Committee of the Girard College for Orphans to the Select and Common Council of Philadelphia ... Also a Report to the Building Committee by Thomas U. Walter ... Together with the Address Delivered on Laying the Corner Stone, July 4, 1833 by Nicholas Biddle, and the Address Delivered on the Occasion of Placing the Crowning Stone, August 29, 1846, by Joseph R. Chandler ..
Final Report of the Building Committee of the Girard College for Orphans to the Select and Common Council of Philadelphia ... Also a Report to the Building Committee by Thomas U. Walter ... Together with the Address Delivered on Laying the Corner Stone, July 4, 1833 by Nicholas Biddle, and the Address Delivered on the Occasion of Placing the Crowning Stone, August 29, 1846, by Joseph R. Chandler ..

Author: Girard College (Philadelphia). Building Committee

Publisher:

Published: 1818

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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Stephen Girard
Stephen Girard

Author: James J. Raciti

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2016-04-10

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 161139385X

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Why is Stephen Girard, a figure from late Colonial America, important today? As a teenager, he left home in Bordeaux, France with meager funds and went to sea as a merchant marine, following his family’s tradition. In early summer, 1776, he landed in Phil