These immigrants came from England and Germany in the 17th century and settled in Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts: John Reading, Thomas Howell, Anthony Yerkes, John Watts, Frances Lathem (wife of Capt. Jermiah Clarke), Henry Elkins.

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This is a classic study of Philadelphia’s business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations. It is also an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders produced a national upper-class way of life. But as that way of life came to an end, the upper-class outlived its function; this, argues E. Digby Baltzell, is precisely what took place in the Philadelphia class system. For sociologists, historians, and those concerned with issues of culture and the economy, this is indeed a classic of modern social science.