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DREXEL, ANTHONY JOSEPH (1826–1893)

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DREXEL, ANTHONY JOSEPH (1826–1893)

DREXEL, See also:
ANTHONY, SAINT
ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)
ANTHONY See also:
JOSEPH
JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)
JOSEPH (1826–1893) , See also:

AMERICAN

American banker, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, See also:

Pennsylvania, on the 13th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1826. He was the son of See also:

Francis M. Drexel (1792–1863), a native of See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian See also:

TIROL (or TYROL 1)

Tirol, who emigrated to See also:

AMERICA

America in 1817, and, after some years spent as a portrait-painter, became a banker and the founder of the See also:

house of Drexel & See also:

COMPANY

Company. Anthony, who entered his See also:

FATHER

father's counting-house in 1839, eventually, with his See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers Francis and Joseph, succeeded to the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the business, and organized the banking houses of Drexel, See also:

Morgan & Company, New See also:

York, of which his See also:

BROTHER

brother Joseph W. (1833–1888) was See also:

long the See also:

RESIDENT

resident See also:

head, and of Drexel, Harjes & Company, See also:

Paris. In 1864 he joined his friend See also:

George W. See also:

CHILDS, GEORGE WILLIAM (1829–1894)

Childs in the See also:

PURCHASE

purchase of the Philadelphia Public See also:

LEDGER (from the English dialect forms liggen or leggen, to lie or lay; in sense adapted from the Dutch substantive logger)

Ledger, and with him in 1892 founded the Printers' See also:

Home for See also:

union men at See also:

COLORADO

Colorado Springs. In 1891 he founded, and endowed with $2,000,000, the Drexel See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute of See also:

Art, See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science and See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

Industry in Philadelphia, the buildings for which he constructed at a cost of $750,000. This institution provides technical instruction for both See also:

NIGHT

night and See also:

day classes and public lecture courses, and has a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good museum and a library of 35,000 volumes. Drexel died at See also:

CARLSBAD

Carlsbad, See also:

Germany, on the 3oth of See also:

JUNE

June 1893.

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