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DEXTER, TIMOTHY (1747—1806)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 141 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEXTER, See also:TIMOTHY (1747—1806) , See also:American See also:merchant, remarkable for his eccentricities, was See also:born at See also:Malden, See also:Massachusetts, on the 22nd of See also:February 1747. He acquired considerable See also:wealth by buying up quantities of the depreciated See also:continental currency, which was ultimately redeemed by the Federal See also:government at See also:par. He assumed the See also:title of See also:Lord Dexter and built extraordinary houses at See also:Newburyport, See also:Mass., and See also:Chester, New See also:Hampshire. He maintained a poet See also:laureate and collected inferior pictures, besides erecting in one of his gardens some See also:forty See also:colossal statues carved in See also:wood to represent famous men. A statue of him-self was included in the collection, and had for an inscription " I am the first in the See also:East, the first in the See also:West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western See also:World." He wrote a See also:book entitled See also:Pickle for the Knowing Ones. It was wholly without See also:punctuation marks, and as this aroused comment, he published a second edition, at the end of which was a See also:page displaying nothing but commas and stops, from which the readers were invited to " peper and solt it as they plese." He See also:beat his wife for not weeping enough at the See also:rehearsal of his funeral, which he himself carried out in a very elaborate manner. He died at Newburyport on the 26th of See also:October 1806.

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