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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: George Clymer 1739 1813

For Students 9th - 10th
Clymer was orphaned in 1740, only a year after his birth in Philadelphia. A wealthy uncle reared and informally educated him and advanced him from clerk to full-fledged partner in his mercantile firm, which on his death he bequeathed to...