critical of Girard. List of richest Americans in history List of wealthiest historical figures War of 1812 References Further reading Adams, Donald. Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girard’s Bank, 1812–1831 (1978) McMaster, John Bach. The Life and Times of Stephen Girard, Mariner and Merchant (2 vol.) (1918) online Wildes, Harry E. Lonely Midas: The Story of Stephen Girard (1943) Wilson, George. Stephen Girard: The Life and Times of America's First Tycoon (1996) Raciti, James J. Stephen Girard: America's Colonial Olympian, 1750-1831 (2015) External links Founder's Hall - Stephen Girard Country Farmhouse and Outbuildings of Mr. Stephen Girard, Philadelphia, May 1891 by D.J. Kennedy, Historical Society of Philadelphia Get to Know Stephen Girard The French assault on American Shipping 1793-1813 The Polly ship of GIRARD The Helvetius ship of GIRARD The Helvetius ship of GIRARD The Montesquieu of GIRARD The North America ship of GIRARD The North America ship of GIRARD The Rousseau ship of GIRARD American atheists American bankers American philanthropists People from Mount Holly, New Jersey Businesspeople from Philadelphia French emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies 1750 births 1831 deaths People of colonial Pennsylvania Colonial American merchants People from Pennsylvania in the War of 1812 Burials in Pennsylvania American slave owners French slave owners