Girard
STEPHEN, an American , an American France, May 24, 1750.
In 1769 he settled established the Second National Bank, as a trader in Philadelphia, where he and advanced several millions to the United States treasury during the War of 1812. In the yellow fever epidemic in hospitals; and in public matters his gen- 1793 he nursed many of the sick in the erosity bequests he left $7,500,000 for the erection and maintenance in Philadelphia of ity was remarkable.
Among other died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 26, 1831. a college for male white orphans. He