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See also:ANTHONY See also:JOSEPH See also:DREXEL (1826–1893) , See also:American banker, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 13th of See also:September 1826 . He was the son of See also:Francis M . See also:Drexel (1792–1863), a native of See also:Austrian See also:Tirol, who emigrated to See also:America in 1817, and, after some years spent as a portrait-painter, became a banker and the founder of the See also:house of Drexel & See also:Company . See also:Anthony, who entered his See also:father's counting-house in 1839, eventually, with his See also:brothers Francis and See also:Joseph, succeeded to the See also:control of the business, and organized the banking houses of Drexel, See also:Morgan & Company, New See also:York, of which his See also:brother Joseph W . (1833–1888) was See also:long the See also:resident See also:head, and of Drexel, Harjes & Company, See also:Paris . In 1864 he joined his friend See also:George W . See also:Childs in the See also:purchase of the Philadelphia Public See also:Ledger, and with him in 1892 founded the Printers' See also:Home for See also:union men at See also:Colorado Springs . In 1891 he founded, and endowed with $2,000,000, the Drexel See also:Institute of See also:Art, See also:Science and See also:Industry in Philadelphia, the buildings for which he constructed at a cost of $750,000 . This institution provides technical instruction for both See also:night and See also:day classes and public lecture courses, and has a See also:good museum and a library of 35,000 volumes . Drexel died at See also:Carlsbad, See also:Germany, on the 3oth of See also:June 1893 . |
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