Item #65305 THE NATURE AND USES OF MONEY AND MIXED CURRENCY, with a History of the Wickaboag Bank. Amasa Walker.

THE NATURE AND USES OF MONEY AND MIXED CURRENCY, with a History of the Wickaboag Bank.

Boston, [MA]: Crosby, Nichols & Company, 117 Washington Street, 1857. First edition. 23 cm. 83 pp. printed orange wrappers, soiled with chipping along spine. Uncommon. Son of a blacksmith, lacking a college education, Amasa Walker was a self educated businessman. He became a Jacksonian, and an abolitionist who was part of the Underground Railroad and a founder of Oberlin College. He served in both the Massachusetts House and Senate and was a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts from 1862-63. [see: Joseph Dorfman's "The Economic Mind in American Civilization," (NY: 1946)]. Item #65305

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