Definition of Stephen girard

1. Noun. United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831).

Exact synonyms: Girard
Generic synonyms: Financier, Moneyman

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Literary usage of Stephen girard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"THE heirs at law of the late stephen girard, of Philadelphia, instituted a suit in October, 1836, in the Circuit Court of the Eastern District of ..."

2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"V.—stephen girard. THE moral and intellectual features of different individuals ... stephen girard was born on the 24th of May, 1750, within the environs of ..."

3. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"The American captain went security for him and so the Frenchman, stephen girard, landed in Philadelphia where he decided to make his home, and which through ..."

4. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"In the one hundred and fifty years from the birth of stephen girard until to-day are crowded nearly all of modern history worth preserving, ..."

5. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860)
"THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AND THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE YOUNG.* INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE heirs at law of the late stephen girard, of Philadelphia, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1844)
"The trusts mentioned in the will of stephen girard are of an eleemosynary nature, and charitable uses, in a judicial sense. Donations for the establishment ..."

7. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1877)
"THE heirs at law of the late stephen girard, of Philadelphia, instituted a suit in October, 1836, in the Circuit Court of the Eastern District of ..."

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