OF

EMINENT PHILADELPHIANS,

NOW DECEASED.

COLLECTED

FROM ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC SOURCES,

BY

HENRY SIMPSON,

MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

"Though fame is smoke,

Its fumes are frankincense to human thought."

BYRON.

ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY-FOUR FINE ENGRAVINGS.

PHILADELPHIA:

WILLIAM BROTHERHEAD,

NO. 213 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,

BY HENRY SIMPSON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.