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Finance and Enterprise in Early America Alain Beneteau working with scriptsStephen Girard, the second richest American of his time after John Jacob Astor, 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. In a period when precedents were being set in a new nation and large