Eastwick Collection, 1746-1929 1746-1929

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...

Peters, Richard, 1744-1828

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Richard Peters (June 22, 1744 – August 22, 1828) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, Continental Army soldier, Federalist politician, author and United States District Judge. Before his federal judicial service in the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, Peters served as secretary of the Continental Board of War, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as member and speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later the Pennsylvania State Senate. Born at...

Hosmer, Titus, 1736-1780

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Titus Hosmer (1736 – August 4, 1780) was an American Founding Father and lawyer from Middletown, Connecticut. He was a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1778, where he signed the Articles of Confederation. Titus was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, attended Yale and graduated in 1757. He read for the law, was admitted to the bar, and began a practice in Middletown, Connecticut. Hosmer was elected to the Connecticut State Assembly annually from 1773 to 1778 and served ...

Ruschenberger, W.S.W. (William Samuel Waithman), 1807-1895

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William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1807-1895) was a physician in the U.S. Medical Corps from 1826 through the middle of the nineteenth century. He was born in Cumberland, NJ; educated in Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY; and was appointed surgeon's mate in the U.S. Navy in 1826. His first cruise was aboard the U.S. frigate BRANDYWINE (1826-1829) which made port in several cities in South America including Callao, Peru; Valparaiso, Chile; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received the degree o...

Abert, John James, 1788-1863

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John James Abert (1788-1863) was a topographical engineer for the United States Army. He supervised many early national engineering projects, including the planning for a wagon road from Genoa, Utah to Carson Valley, Nevada. From the description of John James Abert letter, 1861 February 7. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 159957417 ...

Lewis, Fielding, 1725-1781 or 1782

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Virginia planter; brother-in-law of George Washington; member of the House of Burgesses and Committee of Correspondence. From the description of ALS : Fredericksburg, Va., to George Washington, 1776 Mar. 6. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 145506936 ...

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Weiss, Charles

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Remington, William Walter, 1917-1954

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Government official and defendant in national security cases. From the description of William Walter Remington papers, 1926-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979759 ...

Ewing, Sam

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Bethune, M

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Johnston, Robert (Tenor)

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Baynton, Catherine

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Watmough, Maria Ellis

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Irving, James

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Cathrale, Hannah

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Fisher, Edward

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Epithet: engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001161.0x000101 Epithet: of Add MS 36048 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001161.0x000103 ...

Whitesides, Rev. Henry

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Fahnestock, K

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Whitesides, Mary

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Palfray, William

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Potts, Maria

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Darlington, William, 1781-1863

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Williams, Jonathan Jr.

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Lukens, Isaiah

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Wilson, Rev. R.

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L, Ann

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Bayard, Anna Maria

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Rawle, William, 1759-1836

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William Rawle was born to a Quaker family in Philadelphia on April 28, 1759. His stepfather was Samuel Shoemaker, who served as a mayor of Philadelphia during the American Revolution. A Loyalist, Rawle fled to New York on the sloop Harlem in June 1778, when the British evacuated Philadelphia. After studying law in New York, Rawle traveled to Cork, Ireland, and London, England, in 1781. In London, Rawle studied law at the Middle Temple until his departure for France in late June or early July 178...

Jones, Owen

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Epithet: Reverend; of Newhaven, county Sussex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000441.0x000073 Epithet: architect British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000167 Epithet: of Add MS 14963 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_...

Rawle, M

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Wister, Rachel

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Wister, Hannah, 1767-1827.

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Rawke, Charles

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Bedford, Sarah

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Cathrale, Cecilia

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Wister, Caudy

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Lawrence, Roderic

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Baynton, Susan

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Smith, Hewes J.

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Miercken, Henry

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Pennock, William

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Fishborne, Polly

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Wister, John,

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Butler, Francis

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Wister, Lowry

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Bensell, Dr. George

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Rawle, Peggy

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Wister, William Wynne, 1838-1900

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Bayntun family.

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Wister, James W.

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Pigou, Frederick

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Sheepshanks, William

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Nancarrow, Susan Jones

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Howell, H. M. (Heather Marion), 1939-

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Griffitts, Mary

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Norris, Deborah

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Wernet, Francis A.

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Jay, William

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Epithet: Dissenting minister British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x00038c ...

Howell, Joshua Blackwood, 1806-1864

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Brigadier General, Third Division, Tenth Corps, United States Army, killed at Petersburg, Virginia, in the final campaigns of the Civil War. From the description of Papers, ca. 1820-1890. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864959 Colonel, 85th Pennsylvania Regiment, U.S.A., stationed in South Carolina and Virginia. From the description of Papers, 1862-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19793523 ...

Lukens, John, 1720-1789

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John Lukens was Surveyor-general of Pennsylvania and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1767. From the description of Papers, 1760-1788. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122464769 From the guide to the John Lukens papers, 1760-1788, 1760-1788, (American Philosophical Society) "John Lukens (1720?-1789) served as Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania and Delaware, 1761-1776, and of Pennsylvania, 1781-1789. He was ...

Bullock, Sarah (Sophie)

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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Mount Holly Monthly Meeting was established in 1776 by Burlington Quarterly Meeting out of Burlington Monthly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox Meeting was discontinued in 1828 ; its members were transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Mount Holly Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the cu...

Wister, Casper, 1818-1888.

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Darlington, William, 1782-1863

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William Darlington was a physician and naturalist. From the description of Papers, 1777-1863. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122589373 From the description of Letters, 1836-1857. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122316436 From the guide to the William Darlington papers, 1777-1863, 1777-1863, (American Philosophical Society) From the guide to the William Darlington letters, 1836-1857, 1836-1857, (Am...

Bockius, A. R. Jr.

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Connor, Morgan

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Kirkpatrick, Jane, 1946-....

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Wister, Daniel, 1739-1805

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Wister, Sarah Whitesides, -1869

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Bradford, Vincent

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Bullock, Elizabeth

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Lenox, David. Philadelphia

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Wister, Susan

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Wister, Charles Jones, 1782-1865

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Charles J. Wister was the grandson of John Wister, the builder of the family home known as "Grumblethorpe". An amateur scientist, he retired in 1819 to devote himself to botany and mineralogy, subjects he lectured on at the Germantown Academy. He also erected an astronomical observatory at his Germantown, Pennsylvania home. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1811. From the guide to the Memoir of Charles J. Wister, 1782-1865, [n.d.], n.d., (American Philosophical ...

Ford, James R., 1980-

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Winebrener, R. W.

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Wister, Sarah, 1761-1804

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Jones, Horatio Gates

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In Crozer Locked Section. From the description of Horatio Gates Jones, Jr papers, 1845-1888. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155448392 ...

Baynton, Peter

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Morgan, George, 1743-1810

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Indian agent and land speculator. From the description of George Morgan papers, 1776-1786. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981775 Born at Philadelphia, 1743. Junior partner of Baynton, Warton and Morgan and engaged in extensive trade on upper Mississippi after British conquest of Canada. 25 years later, ruined, he embarked on a project of founding a principality in Spanish Louisiana, opposite the mouth of the Ohio. Died 1810. MMQ (from Savelle. "George Morgan Colony Builder...

Beitel, Christian F.

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Ruschenberger, Mary Baynton Wister

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Hankinson, Harry

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Powell, Jeremiah

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Kidd, William

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Lukens, Jesse

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Bullock family.

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Webb, George

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Loudon, Samuel

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Purviance, Samuel Jr.

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Morris, Samuel

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Epithet: Provost of Tralee British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x0003c3 Epithet: of Add MS 46925 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x0003c2 Epithet: of Add MS 11759 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x0003c1 Information about thi...

Bullock, Anna Maria

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Wister, Elizabeth, 1764-1812.

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Wister, Owen J. (Owen Jones), 1825-1896

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Wallis, Joseph

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Resident of Beverly, Mass. From the description of Joseph Wallis deposition, 1719 Mar. 21. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71057424 ...

Wister, Elizabeth Harvey

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Samson, Elizabeth

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Lukens, Charles, 1786-1825

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Wister, John Sr.

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Morrison, J. William

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Pierce, John Jr.

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Wilson, Margaret, 1882-1973

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Writer and missionary, Margaret Wilhemina Wilson was born in Traer, Iowa on January 16, 1882 to West Wilson and Agnes (McCornack) Wilson. She received an Associate degree (1903) and a B.Phil. (1904) from the University of Chicago. After graduation, Wilson served as a missionary in the Punjab area of India. She attended the Divinity School at the University of Chicago (1912-1914), taught at West Pullman (Chicago) High School, and wrote many short stories. After her marriage to George Douglas Turn...

Higgenbotham, David

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Wister, Mrs. William Wynne

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Fayhone, Joseph

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Wister, Sarah E.

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Pleasant, Nancy ?

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Bayard, Samuel

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Lehman, Christian

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Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864

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Benjamin Silliman was a chemist and naturalist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1805. From the description of Correspondence, 1808-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466220 Physician and chemist of New Haven, Connecticut. From the description of Note, 1853, Sept. 28 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Isaac Waldron. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359361 Educator and scientist. From the description of Papers of...

Wister, Charles Jones, 1822-1910

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Charles Jones Wister was the son of Charles J. Wister. Charles J. Wister was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1811, and was an amateur scientist who erected an astronomical observatory at his Germantown (Pa.) home, "Grumblethorpe." From the description of Memoir of Charles J. Wister, 1782-1865, [n.d.]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122417047 ...

Bullock, Rebecca

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Wister, Mrs. Charles

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Foulke, Susan

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Wister, Jones

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Wister, William Wynne, 1838-1900

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Wister, Rebecca

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Poice, C. M.

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Johnson, Anthony M.

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Miller, Peter, 1973-

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Gibson, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 4284 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x000335 Epithet: nightman, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x000333 Epithet: Dean of Down British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000565.0x00032e Epithet: of Sloane MS 1...

Gardner, Robert (Robert Harkins), 1947-

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Robert Gardner (1889-1972), Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. From the guide to the Robert Gardner: Classics Papers, 1908-1955, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives) Epithet: merchant, of Manchester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000388.0x0003b3 ...

Wister, Hannah Lewis

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Wister, Lily T.

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Clibborn, Joshua

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Green, Dr.

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Girard Bank

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After the charter of the First Bank of the United States expired in 1811, the merchant Stephen Girard established a private bank, called "Girard's Bank", in the former BUS headquarters in order to maintain adequate banking facilities for Philadelphia. Girard died in 1831, and a group of local businessmen continued the institution as the "Girard Bank." In 1832 they received a state charter as the "Girard Bank of the City of Philadelphia." The bank was forced to suspend payment in January 1842 in ...

Hankinson, John

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Latimer, Sarah G.

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Whitesides, Harriett

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Brown, Elyaeh

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Bohman, A

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Wistar family.

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Bullock, Ester Baynton

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