Legal papers, 1824-1919.

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Legal papers, 1824-1919.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122589123

This is a collection of father and son's legal briefs, correspondence, etc. relating to numerous and varied cases in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. For example, there is information on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, the Delaware breakwater, various ships, as well as the controversy with Margaret Fox. There is even material on Thomas Sully vs. the Saint George Society, concerning a portrait by Sully of Queen Victoria.

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American Philosophical Society Library

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Kane, John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858

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John Kintzing Kane was a Philadelphia lawyer and Pennsylvania politician. He was appointed Attorney General of Pennsylvania in 1845, a position he resigned in 1846 to serve until his death as a U. S. District Court Judge for eastern Pennsylvania. From the description of Legal papers, 1824-1919. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122589123 From the description of Papers, 1826-1860. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat recor...

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company

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Formed in 1802 to dig a canal across the Delmarva Peninsula to join the Delaware Bay and the Chesapeake Bay. Engineering surveys were done by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and work actually began but the company ran out of money and abandoned the project in late 1805. In 1822 the company was revived and a canal was completed which opened in 1829. In 1919 the canal, which ran from Delaware City, Del., to Chesapeake City, Md., was purchased by the federal government. From the description of C...

Strickland, William, 1787-1854

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Leiper, Samuel M.

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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 ...

Saint George's Society

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Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893

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Say, Benjamin, 1755-1813

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Kane, Robert Patterson, 1827-1906.

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Robert Patterson Kane was a Philadelphia lawyer. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1830]-1900. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122540757 ...

Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872

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Artist Thomas Sully was born in London, although his actor parents soon emigrated to the United States. A trip back to England to study painting expanded his horizons, and upon his return to the United States he developed a reputation as a first rate painter. He specialized in portraits, especially portraits of women, and painted full-length portraits of many public and private figures. He is perhaps most closely associated with his portrait of Queen Victoria and for his painting, Washington cro...