 | Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girard''s Bank, 1812-1831 Stephen Girard was the last of the great merchant bankers and the first of the great investment bankers. This is a study not only of an influential man and the bank he operated in Philadelphia but also of the growing interdependence between the institutions of government and finance in early nineteenth-century America. Donald R. Adams, Jr. was Professor of History at West Virginia University. |
