He was the only private individual to ever own a chair on both the Philadelphia and New York Stock Exchanges.
He became an office boy in 1862 at a stock brokerage, later became a clerk there.
While a clerk there bought his own chair on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
He retired in 1910, having built a spacious family house, Longmeadow, in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, and an elegant Arts & Crafts-style summer house, Faraway, on Eastern Point of Greening Island, Maine.
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