A POWDERMAN BECOMES DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL BANK

Later in the United States, after successfully setting up the best gunpowder factory in the world, Eleuthère Irenée DuPont was selected along with his friend Nicholas Biddle to be a director of Hamilton’s creation the United States Bank. Remember that Astor was also selected as a director of this "National" Bank.
The Mason Stephen Girard (1750-1831), initiated into Masonry in 1788 in Charleston, S.C., helped establish the second Bank of United States in 1816 and served as its director. Girard had amassed a S9 million fortune by the time of his death. He was born in France, and become a sea captain. Where his money came from is somewhat of a mystery. He gave large sums of his money to masonic charity.
EARLY YEARS IN AMERICA

·       On Jan. 3, 1800, the DuPont tribe arrived in the United States with grandiose plans. Part of the plans were to create a new society. While Victor Marie and his father pursued grandiose schemes that tailed miserably, Eleuthère lrénée DuPont started a gunpowder business in Delaware. Irénée’s success can be attributed to several factors:

·       ·The French government gave him top-secret machinery and plans to produce the best gunpowder possible in that day. It was state-of-the-art technology, and they supplied manpower to help get started.

·       ·The DuPonts had friends in various places that helped them in numerous ways, getting financing, business, land, etc.

·       ·Eleuthère Irénée DuPont was intelligent, worked very hard and worked with patience. If he hadn’t had so many commendable qualities, then the DuPont family may have sunk back in history, and another family taken their place.