Isaac Hicks; New York merchant and Quaker, 1767-1820.
Series: Harvard studies in business history,; 22
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820.
Description: A biography of Isaac Hicks (1767-1820), a Quaker, whose activities as a businessman and a citizen in New York are studied to see the influences of a "... set of religious beliefs and practices of an individual acquired through early family and church training."-- (Foreword, p. [ix]). The biography also tells of his marriage to Sarah Doughty in 1790, and of his relations with his wife and sons.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [171]-180.