In  Philadelphia  Jlr.  Colwell  engaged  in  the  manu-
facture of  iron,  and  sjient  nearly  all  his  leisure  hours
for  thirty  years  in  the  study  of  Political  Economy,
and  in  studies  connected  with  it,  and  in  process  of
that  time  collected  the  largest  library,  perhaps,  in  the
couutr}-,  upon  these  topics.  He  wTote  much  on  this
subject,  beginning  with  a  pamphlet  on  the  "  Re-
moval of  Deposits  of  the  United  States  from  the  Bank
of  the  United  States,  by  order  of  the  President, ' '  iu
1834.   In  1851  he  gave  to  the  public  "New  Themes  for


the  Protestant  Clergy;"  in  1852,  "  Politics  for  Ameri-
can Christians;"  in  1854,  "  The  Position  of  Chris-
tianity in  the  United  States,"  and  in  the  same  year
his  great  work  on  "The  Ways  and  Means  of  Com-
mercial Payment."  Many  of  his  publications  were
chiefly  directed  to  passing  events,  and  did  good  ser-
\-ice  in  their  day;  the  above  will  be  permanently
useful.  He  made  a  gift  of  his  library  to  the  Univer-
sity of  Pennsylvania,  in  view  of  a  chair  of  Social
Science  being  created  in  that  Institution.  Jlr.  Col-
well was  an  active  member  of  the  Presb_\-terian
Church,  and  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of
the  General  As.sembly.
Comegys,  Benjamin  B.,  a  member  of  the  Board
of  Directors  of  City  Trusts,  Philadelphia,  was  boru
in  Dover,  Delaware,  May  9th,  1819,  where  the  first


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