Decatur's Life in Philadelphia

 

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suggest to me, the roma romantic ntic sea-eagle, Stephen Decatur, spent his boyhood inthat Philadelphia. And as a lad, the author of that immortal immortal toast My CountrA Right or Wrong was a lively chap, although his mother wished wished him to become a preacher. Son of a seaman, young Decatur strained at his school leash until he, too, took to the wide ocean. He attended the Episcopal Academy and spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania. Then young Decatur at 17 got a job in the counting house of Guerney and Smith, a firm which carried on a big East India trade. His father had been associated with that enterprise and took the boy,on a trip to Europe when he was only 8 years old. Among Decatur's schoolmates was Richard Rush, who, as Minister to England, urged President Monroe to proclaim his famous

Mon Monroe Doctrine. But theshed future daring naval command commander, St Ste. e. phenroe Decatur, must have tears when in June, 1785,er, Uncle Sam sold in this city his last warship, the Alliance. IR RD