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 488
pparent that the Bank could not secure a renewalof its charter from Congress. As a confession of its defeat, and just thirteendays before the expiration of its federal charter, the Bank obtained from theState of Pennsylvania, February 18, 1836, a charter for the United StatesBank of Pennsylvania,… … SECOND UNITED STATES BANK, PHILADELPHIA. NOW CUSTOM HOUSE. by bad management. It suspended during the panic of 1837 and the nextyear, and again for the last time in 1841. Biddle resigned the presidency in1840, and four years later died poor and broken-hearted. Thus perishedwhat is sometimes called…
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