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CORCORAN, WILLIAM W.

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Definitions of CORCORAN, WILLIAM W.

1894 - Dictionary of United States history

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(1798-1888), a banker and successful financier during the Mexican War, was noted as founder of the Louise Home and the Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington, D. C., and for liberality toward charitable institutions.

1894 - Dictionary of United States history
By John Franklin Jameson

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