Stephen Girard

Stephen Girard
Author: George Wilson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780938289562

The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon

The Girard College and its Founder

The Girard College and its Founder
Author: Henry W. Arey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2023-11-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3375172435

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Stephen Girard

Stephen Girard
Author: James J. Raciti
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-04-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 161139385X

Why is Stephen Girard, a figure from late Colonial America, important today? As a teenager, he left home in Bordeaux, France with meager funds and went to sea as a merchant marine, following his family’s tradition. In early summer, 1776, he landed in Phil