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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Stephen Girard, Vol. 1: Mariner and Merchant Stephen girard by will bequeathed to the Common wealth of Pennsylvania and to the City of Phila delphia cash and real estate amounting in 1831 to over Never before had a private citizen of the United States bequeathed so vast a sum for the public good. By careful management the invested capital of the various trust funds created by his will now amounts to over Despite the great benefit the City has received from the income of these trust funds, and the community from the education of orphan boys in the College, no biography of Stephen Girard has hitherto been written, although he has been 86 years in his grave. A few sketches have been published, and a book by Stephen Simpson was issued immediately after the death of Girard in 1831. The author was one time a clerk in Girard's Bank, and, disappointed and disgruntled because he was not made cashier, avenged himself by writing a biography, false by deliberate intent and by lack of information. 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.