The Life of John Heysham, M.D: And His Correspondence With Mr. Joshua Milne Relative to the Carlisle Bills of Mortality (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The second son, John, had also several children - 110 less than nine of whom were sons. Some of these, following the commercial instinct of the family, emigrated to America, and there realised fortune and position. One son, Gyles, maintained the family name at home. As a shipowner, he shared in the prosperity that attended Lancaster in her extensive sugar trade and other commercial relations. He has been described as handsome in person, and a thorough-bred man of business yet, like other men of bold enterprise, he was not uniformly successful in his commercial undertakings. About the year 17 50 he took to wife Anne Cumming, daughter of a well-to-do yeoman or Statesman, at Holme, in Westmoreland, of which marriage came John Heysham, the subject of the present memoir, born at Lancaster on the 22d November 175 3.

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