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border. His father was a successful merchant with business associates in both
Switzerland and Italy. In 1803, Francis was sent to study Italian and French at a Catholic convent school In Italy. Drexel eventually became conversant in five languages. He returned two years later and was apprenticed to a
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A law suit for libel against his brother-in-law, Bernard
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which became one of the largest banks in the United States. The original business of Drexel & Co. was discounting privately issued bank notes, the value of which was largely dependent on the character of the principal officers of the issuing bank. The exposure to the principals gained from
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A sculpture of Drexel stands atop the
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Katharine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Life Story of an American Catholic Saint
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