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See also:GIRARD, See also:STEPHEN (1750-1831) , See also:American financier and philanthropist, founder of Girard See also:College in See also:Philadelphia, was See also:born in a suburb of See also:Bordeaux, See also:France, on the loth of May 1750. He lost the sight of his right See also:eye at the See also:age of eight and had little See also:education. His See also:father was a See also:sea See also:captain, and the son cruised to the See also:West Indies and back during 1764-1773, was licensed captain in 1773, visited New See also:York in 1774, and thence with the assistance of a New York See also:merchant began to See also:trade to and from New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans and See also:Port au See also:Prince. In May 1776 he was driven into the port of Philadelphia by a See also:British See also:fleet and settled there as a merchant; in See also:June of the next See also:year he married See also:Mary (Polly) Lum, daughter of a shipbuilder, who, two years later, after Girard's becoming a See also:citizen of See also:Pennsylvania (1778), built for him the " See also:Water See also:Witch," the first of a fleet trading with New Orleans and the West Indies—most of Girard's See also:ships being named after his favourite See also:French authors, such as " See also:Rousseau," " See also:Voltaire," " Helvetius " and " See also:Montesquieu." His beautiful See also:young wife became insane and spent the years from 1790 to her See also:death in 1,815 in the Pennsylvania See also:Hospital. In 18ro Girard used about a million dollars deposited by him with the Barings of See also:London for the See also:purchase of shares of the much depreciated stock of the See also:Bank of the See also:United States—a purchase of See also:great assistance to the United States See also:government in bolstering See also:European confidence in its securities. When the Bank was not rechartered the See also:building and the See also:cashier's See also:house in Philadelphia were purchasedat a third of the See also:original cost by Girard, who in May 18rs established the Bank of Stephen Girard. He subscribed in 1814 for about 95% of the government's See also:war See also:loan of $5,000,000, of which only $20,000 besides had been taken, and he generously offered at See also:par shares which upon his purchase had gone to a See also:premium. He pursued his business vigorously in See also:person until the 12th of See also:February 1830, when he was injured in the See also:street by a See also:truck; he died on the 26th of See also:December 1831. His public spirit had been shown during his See also:life not only financially but personally; in 1793, during the See also:plague of yellow See also:fever in Philadelphia, he volunteered to See also:act as manager of the wretched hospital at See also:Bush See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, and with the assistance of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Helm had the hospital cleansed and its See also:work systematized; again during the yellow fever epidemic of 1797-1798 he took the See also:lead in relieving the poor and caring for the sick. Even more was his philanthropy shown in his disposition by will of his See also:estate, which was valued at about $7,500,000, and doubtless the greatest See also:fortune accumulated by any individual in See also:America up to that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. Of his fortune he bequeathed $116,000 to various Philadelphia charities, $500,000 to the same See also:city for the improvement of the See also:Delaware water front, $300,000 to Pennsylvania for See also:internal improvements, and the bulk of his estate to Philadelphia, to be used in See also:founding a school or college, in providing a better See also:police See also:system, and in making municipal improvements and lessening See also:taxation. Most of his See also:bequest to the city was to be used for building and maintaining a school " to provide for such a number of poor male See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:orphan See also:children . . . a better education as well as a more comfortable See also:maintenance than they usually receive from the application of the public funds." His will planned most minutely for the erection of this school, giving details as to the windows, doors, walls, &c.; and it contained the following phrase: "I enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, missionary or See also:minister of any See also:sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any See also:duty whatsoever in the said college; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor, within the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said college. . . . I See also:desire to keep the See also:tender minds of orphans . . . See also:free from the excitements which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so See also:apt to produce." Girard's heirs-at-See also:law contested the will in 1836, and they were greatly helped by a public See also:prejudice aroused by the clause cited; in the Supreme See also:Court of the United States in 1844 See also:Daniel See also:Webster, appearing for the heirs, made a famous plea for the See also:Christian See also:religion, but See also:Justice See also:Joseph See also:Story handed down an See also:opinion adverse to the heirs ( Vidals v. Girard's Executors). Webster was opposed in this suit by See also:John Sergeant and See also:Horace See also:Binney. Girard specified that those admitted to the college must be 'white male orphans, of legitimate See also:birth and See also:good See also:character, between the ages of six and ten; that no boy was to be permitted to stay after his eighteenth year; and that as regards admissions preference was to be shown, first to orphans born in Philadelphia, second to orphans born in any other See also:part of Pennsylvania, third to orphans born in New York City, and See also:fourth to orphans born in New Orleans. Work upon the buildings was begun in 1833, and the college was opened on the 1st of See also:January 1848, a technical point of law making instruction conditioned upon the completion of the five buildings, of which the See also:principal one, planned by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Ustick See also:Walter (1804-1887), has been called " the most perfect See also:Greek See also:temple in existence." To a See also:sarcophagus in this See also:main building the remains of Stephen Girard were removed in 1851. In the 40 acres of the college grounds there were in 1909 18 buildings (valued at $3,350,000), 1513 pupils, and a See also:total " See also:population," including students, teachers and all employes, of 1907. The value of the Girard `estate in the year 1907 was $35,000,000, of which $550,000 was devoted to other charities than Girard College. The See also:control of the college was under a See also:board chosen by the city See also:councils until 1869, when by act of the legislature it was transferred to trustees appointed by the See also:Common Pleas See also:judges of the city of Philadelphia. The course of training is partly See also:industrial—for a See also:long time graduates were indentured till they came of age—but it is also preparatory to college entrance.
See H. A. See also:Ingram, The Life and Character of Stephen Girard (Philadelphia, 1884), and See also:George P. Rupp, " Stephen Girard—Merchant and Mariner," in 1848–1898: Semi-Centennial of Girard College (Philadelphia, 1898).
End of Article: GIRARD, STEPHEN (1750-1831)
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