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Life Insurance For Our Founding Fathers

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1 Penn Medicine: “History of Pennsylvania Hospital”, 2017  http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/paharc/features/creation.html
2  PBS: “Insurance Ben-Efactor”, 2002 https://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_citizen_insurance.html
3 The Guardian: “Fine owed by George Washington for overdue library books now $300,000” by Ed Pilkington, April 18, 2010 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/18/george-washington-library-new-york
4 The Jefferson Monticello: “Debt” by Lucia Stanton, 1991 https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/debt

This material is intended to promote awareness and is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide any medical, financial, investment, insurance, legal, accounting, or tax advice.

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