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On October 27, 1831, he married Elizabeth Steinmetz (1810-1873), and they had fourteen children.
In 1845 he opened an auction house at 173 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia calling the firm Thomas Birch, Jr.
In 1864, taking his son Edwin King Thomas (1839-1898), as a partner he renamed the firm Thomas Birch & Son. The firm remained with this name until 1878.
From 1887-1890 the firm of Thomas Birch's Sons had an arrangement with Stanislaus Vincent Henkels as the book cataloguer.
He died on February 21, 1883 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Perhaps the most significant auction of the firm took place for the Estate, Lawrence Lewis (Washington's Executor) ; Estate, Lorenzo Lewis (Lawrence Lewis' Executor) ; by Order of H. L. D. Lewis (administrator to Estate Mrs. Lorenzo Lewis) ; Thomas Birch's Sons, Auctioneers Stanislaus Vincent Henkels
Bibliography :
American Journal of Numismatics, XLVIII, xxxv
Louis Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Vol. VII Supplement A-L, page 83
George L. McKay, American Book Auctions 1713-1934 (New York Public Library, 1937)
Carl W. A. Carlson, "Birch and the Patterns of '92," The Numismatist, March (1982)
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