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Thomas Willing was born on June 13, 1866, in Wiesbaden, Germany. His father was Thomas Balch, a Pennsylvania lawyer, who was born at Leesburg, of an old Maryland family. His mother was Emily Swift of an old Philadelphia family.
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International Courts of Arbitration
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Willing Letters and Papers: Edited With a Biographical Essay of Thomas Willing of Philadelphia (Classic Reprint)
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Philadelphia has had among her sons three financiers, each of whom in his day and generation took a leading part in upholding and maintaining the credit of America Thomas Willing, Stephen Girard and Jay Cooke. Old Square Toes, as Thomas Willing was often affectionately called by his relatives, descendants, and intimate friends a nickname given him because of the broad toed shoes that he wore, and a cognomen that in the public mind symbolized the sound and sure basis of his financial operations has not yet received a fair recognition of the important services he rendered to the development first of the Province of Pennsylvania and then of the United States. Beginning with the meeting of the Albany Congress, for a period of almost sixty years, he played a potent though not spectacular role in American affairs. That so little attention has as yet been given to his public services, is no doubt due to the fact that during the Revolution his junior partner was for more than two years Financier General, or as we would say today, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Balch Genealogica
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Thomas Willing Balch
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Balch received his early education in France, but his academic and professional education in the United States. In 1890 he obtained the A. B. degree from Harvard College and five years later the LL. B. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
Although he began the practise of law in 1895, most of his life was devoted to writing and to public-spirited activities. He displayed a penchant for genealogy, publishing The Brooke Family of Whitchurch, Hampshire, England (1899), English Ancestors of the Shippen Family and Edward Shippen, of Philadelphia (1904), The Swift Family of Philadelphia (1906), and the Balch Genealogica (1907). His other hobby was international arbitration. Early in the twentieth century he made a trip to Alaska and to St. Petersburg and upon his return wrote and published The Alasko-Canadian Frontier (1902) and The Alaska Frontier (1903). In 1909 he issued a new edition of The New Cyneas of Émeric Crucé (originally published in 1623), and in 1915 a revised edition of International Courts of Arbitration, written by his father in 1874 to support his claim that he was "the original recommender of almost precisely the plan of arbitration in the Alabama case, which was finally adopted and carried out to a conclusion at Geneva".
The interest of his brother, Edwin Swift Balch, in polar explorations had its counterpart in his own reflections on The Arctic and Antarctic Regions and the Law of Nations (1910). He was a member of numerous clubs in Philadelphia and of historical and patriotic societies there and elsewhere, including the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of which he was one of five vice-presidents. A frequent contributor to the American Journal of International Law and the Revue de droit international et de législation comparée of Brussels, as well as other scientific, legal, and historical periodicals, he was able, because of his wealth, to indulge his desire for reprints of nearly everything he wrote even to the extent of cloth binding for relatively few pages. Late in 1926 his health began to fail and he went to Atlantic City in the hope that the salt air might speed his recovery. It was there that he died in the following June.
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Willing Letters and Papers: Edited With a Biographical Essay of Thomas Willing of Philadelphia (Classic Reprint)
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International Courts of Arbitration
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Balch Genealogica
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Willing Letters and Papers: Edited With a Biographical Essay of Thomas Willing of Philadelphia (Classic Reprint)
Membership
He was a member of numerous clubs in Philadelphia and of historical and patriotic societies there and elsewhere, including the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of which he was one of five vice-presidents.
Connections
On May 26, 1923, he married Dulany Whiting, daughter of Clarence C. Whiting of Roland Park, Baltimore, and a descendant of the Fairfax family of Virginia, who was a little over half his age.
