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...described as having lent large sums of money to the Continental Government and later spending many years in a debtor's jail. Last week in Manhattan the Morris story was gone into in some detail, owing to its connection with an even more neglected Revolutionary figure, one Haym Salomon. Mr. Salomon was a Jewish banker in Philadelphia. To him Jews wished to erect a statue in Madison Square, Manhattan. When the Municipal Art Commission refused to approve the statue, the cry of race prejudice was raised and Revolutionary history was retold to demonstrate Mr. Salomon's right to a monument...
...recalled the "romance in the story of Haym Salomon, Polish Jew financier of the Revolution. Born in Poland, he was made prisoner by the British forces in New York, and when he escaped set up in business in Philadelphia. He negotiated for Robert Morris all the loans raised in France and Holland, pledged his personal faith and fortune for enormous amounts, and personally advanced large sums to such men as James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Baron Steuben, General St. Clair and many other patriot leaders, who testified that without his aid they could not have carried on in the cause...