Colwell, Stephen
merchant, author, was born in 1800 in Vermont. He was an iron merchant of Philadelphia, who wrote much on current topics, especially matters relating to political economy. He was the author of Ways and Means of Commercial Payment; Money on Account; Removal of the Deposits from the Bank of the United States; Domestic Production and Internal Trade; Hints to Laymen; Charity and the Clergy; Politics for American Christians; and New Themes for Protestant Clergy. He died Jan. 15, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.