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FINANCIERS
1. ROBERT MORRIS………English.
2. ALEXANDER HAMILTON….Scotch descent.
3. ALBERT GALLATIN…….He was descended from an ancient patrician family of Switzerland.
4. J. PIERPONT MORGAN….Father—Welsh descent. Mother—English descent.
WRITERS AND SCHOLARS
1. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL..His stock was distinctly of English origin.
2. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES..Dutch and Puritan ancestry.
3. EDGAR ALLAN POE……..From his father he inherited Italian, French, and Irish blood. His mother, Elizabeth Arnold, was purely English.