Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 486
,with the exception of a brief removal to Germantown in 1798, during theepidemic of yellow fever. Though this bank proved a profitable enterprisefor the government, it failed to secure a renewal of its charter in 1811,chiefly because so many of its shares had passed into foreign hands. Eakly State… … THE GIRAP.D BANK, PHILADELPHIA. (Second Site of First United States Bank.) the metallic circulation of the country rose from $9,000,000 to $30,000,000.These banks failed to meet the monetary necessities of the War of 1812, andin 1814 practically all of them south of New England suspended specie…
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