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100 unusual facts about Philadelphia


1975 college football season

#6 Penn State was the only other top 10 team to play the weekend, and struggled to defeat Temple University in a game in Philadelphia, winning 26-25.

Aberdeen Asset Management

The agreement has helped to keep the famous college rowing regatta in Philadelphia, the Group's North American headquarters.

Ange Mlinko

Ange Mlinko (born Philadelphia) is an American poet.

Arkadelphia, Alabama

Some believe it is a combination of "Ark-", the name of an early settlement in nearby Winston County, and "-adelphia", a pseudo-Greek combination meaning "brother-place," likely taken from Philadelphia.

Arthur J. Audett

He died suddenly on March 23, 1921, at the Adelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, of "heart disease".

Augustus Jackson

Augustus Jackson (born April 16, 1808) was an African-American candy confectioner from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Betty Liu

Liu was born in Hong Kong, moved to the United States when she was three years old, and was raised in Philadelphia.

Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquis of Casa Irujo

"He was an obstinate, impetuous and rather vain little person with reddish hair; enormously wealthy, endlessly touchy, extremely intelligent and vastly attractive … he liked America, he understood it and enjoyed it; he was tremendously popular at Philadelphia, and at Washington when he condescended to appear there; he was on intimate terms at the President's House.

Cecil B. Moore Avenue

In West Philadelphia's Parkside community Columbia Avenue runs between North 51st and Lindenwood Streets; between North Peach and 54th Streets in Wynnefield; North 59th and 63rd Streets in Overbrook; and its final portion between Wynnewood Road and North 64th Street also in Overbrook.

Cheval de frise

Similar devices planned by Ben Franklin were used in the Delaware River near Philadelphia, in between Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer.

Chilberg

The amazing story of a Swedish-American family that came all the way from Knäred, Halland, Sweden, to America in 1846 with the boat Superb, starting their uncertain journey to the new future in Gothenburg to arrive in Philadelphia.

Chris Bowers

Bowers was a member of the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee, representing the 8th district of the Pennsylvania State Senate, and a former resident of Philadelphia.

Daniel Barnz

Barnz was born Daniel Bernstein in a suburb of Philadelphia, and later changed his surname to an amalgamation of Bernstein and Schwartz, the surname of his partner of almost two decades, Ben Schwartz.

David Hollenbach

David Hollenbach, S.J. (born October 6, 1942 in Philadelphia, PA.) is both the current University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice and Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College.

David Shrager

After graduating from the law school, he began his legal career at what became the Philadelphia law firm of Farage & Shrager.

Deborah Spungen

Deborah Spungen, born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, has been the owner of a natural foods store, a direct mail consultant, a member of the Philadelphia Crime and Elderly Coalition, and founded the Philadelphia chapter of Parents of Murdered Children.

Diet-to-Go

These locations act as fresh food pick up locations currently in five cities across the U.S. including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

Douve

Among those landing at the Douve was the unit known as the Filthy Thirteen, later the basis of the novel and film The Dirty Dozen, loosely inspired on the exploits of PFC Jack Agnew of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Duane Litfin

Litfin was succeeded as president on July 1, 2010 by Philip Ryken, formerly senior pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and 1988 graduate of Wheaton.

Dyslexicon

Dyslexicon is the second and final album by the Philadelphia grunge band Dandelion, released in 1995.

Edmond-Charles Genêt

Instead of traveling to the then-capital of Philadelphia to present himself to U.S. President George Washington for accreditation, Genêt stayed in South Carolina.

Edson Fessenden Gallaudet

From 1900 to 1903 he worked at William Cramp & Sons' Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then, in 1903, worked at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio.

Edward Robins

Robins was educated in Philadelphia at the Broad Street Military College (sometimes referred to as "institute" or "academy"; it no longer exists).

Eliza Potter

Upon marriage she moved to Philadelphia and gave birth to two mulatto children; however, she soon gave up the married life to go "roving".

Ellen Frankel

Dr. Frankel has also written libretti for two oratorios composed by Andrea Clearfield, Women of Valor and The Golem Psalms. The first was premiered in Los Angeles in 2002; the second in Philadelphia in 2006.

Eugénie Olson

Raised in Verona, New Jersey, Eugénie has lived in several locations on the Eastern Seaboard including Princeton, Philadelphia and Boston.

Fleury Mesplet

In 1774 he emigrated to Philadelphia; it is thought that he may have been persuaded to do so by Benjamin Franklin.

Francis Gulston

In August 1876 Guslon, together with R H Labat, A Trower and J Rowell went to Philadelphia on the steam ship Wyoming to take part in the town's centennial regatta.

Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr.

Since 2004, he has been a partner at the Philadelphia law firm of Raynes McCarty, where he handles complex civil litigation involving tort, insurance and civil rights claims.

Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions

The idea for the song was inspired by an old train depot in Stuart's home town of Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Hank Dogs

Their first album Bareback, produced by Joe Boyd, was well received and was named Record of the Month for WXPN in Philadelphia.

Happy Tears

The shooting schedule was completed in 2008 and included locations in and around Philadelphia including Prospect Park, Center City and Cabrini College.

Hayloft Hoedown

The program, one of the first on ABC, was televised from Town Hall in Center City.

Henry Auchey

Henry B. Auchy (1861–1922) was a businessman famous for, along with Chester Albright, creating the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (later renamed Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1904.

Henry Eyster Jacobs

He was then appointed professor of systematic theology in The Lutheran Theological Seminary in Mount Airy, where he also assumed the office of dean in 1894.

Jacques Reich

In 1873 he came to the U.S. and continued his studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

James Claypoole

He married Rebecca White (ca 1721-1749) on May 24, 1742 at Christ Church, Philadelphia.

James Curtis Booth

James Curtis Booth (28 July 1810 – 21 March 1888) was a United States chemist who was the melter and refiner at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia for many years.

James F. Checchio

In 2004 Checchio earned a master's degree in business administration from La Salle University in Philadelphia.

James McBey

In 1931 at the age of 48 years James McBey married Marguerite Loeb, a photographer and bookbinder from Philadelphia, and in 1942 he became an American citizen.

James Skillen

He received a Bachelor of Divinity from the Westminster Theological Seminary, Chestnut Hill, outside Philadelphia.

Jason Michaels

Michaels was arrested on July 3, 2005, after allegedly punching a police officer as he left a nightclub in Old City, Philadelphia.

John Bachmann

The one other known painting by Bachmann, a version of one of his views of Philadelphia, hangs in the Free Library of Philadelphia.

John Bouvier

In 1802, his family, who were part of the Quakers (his mother was a member of the well-known Benezet family), emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia.

John Heysham Gibbon

Gibbon received his AB from Princeton University in 1923 and his MD from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1927.

John William Wallace

While librarian to the Law Association of Philadelphia, he compiled three volumes of decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which sat in that city.

Joseph Elijah Armstrong

Born in York County, Canada West, Armstrong was educated in National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, PA.

Joseph Fort Newton

At the invitation of the Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Thomas J. Garland, Newton entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church in September 1925, and came to the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Philadelphia, PA, as special minister.

Joseph Seiss

Seiss held pastorates in Virginia and Maryland until 1858, when he accepted a position at St. John's English Lutheran church in Philadelphia.

Joseph Winner

He was born in Philadelphia, where he operated a publishing business from 1854 to 1907.

Kat Lehmer

While attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she studied painting, drawing, and sculpture, Lehmer was inspired by the works of an earlier alumnus, David Lynch, to pursue her interest in film making.

Kristin Hunter

Hunter was born Kristin Eggleston in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her bachelor's degree in Education (1951), and wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier, a black newspaper, until 1952.

Leland B. Harrison

After his death in 1951, he was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. James the Less in Philadelphia.

Lil' Kim: Countdown to Lockdown

The 6-part show followed Lil' Kim's last 14 days of freedom before she entered the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a 366 day sentence.

Linda Joy Holtzman

She left the synagogue and later that year became spiritual leader of Beth Ahavah, a LGBT congregation in Center City, Philadelphia.

Linda Swain

In 2002, Swain began the Moms on the Move show on NBC10 in Philadelphia, USA.

Longstanton

Churches modelled after its architecture have been built as far away as Philadelphia (see Church of St. James the Less) and South Dakota.

Manayunk Expressway

The road would head into Philadelphia and possibly follow the path of the Manayunk Canal.

Mariah Stewart

She and her husband now reside in Chester County, Philadelphia "in a century old Victorian country home" with their daughters and Golden Retrievers.

Mark Dobies

Mark Dobies (born April 3, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor.

Marshall Earle Reid

On May 4, 1912 he started from Hempstead, Long Island intending to fly to Philadelphia.

Martin Luther Stoever

In 1862 the presidency of Girard College, Philadelphia, was offered to him, and in 1869 the professorship of Latin in Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, but he declined both.

Michael Aronov

Aronov has worked with Terrence McNally on the world premiere of Unusual Acts of Devotion in Philadelphia.

Michael Vitez

He has written extensively on the murder-rate in Philadelphia, gun control, along with softer, more community-oriented pieces 2.

Mindy Aloff

Mindy Aloff (born December 1947 Philadelphia) is an American editor, journalist, essayist, and dance critic.

Mint mark

Heaton cited example after example of mint-marked coins that were much scarcer than Philadelphia products and that should bring high premiums.

Nina Weiss

Nina Weiss received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia.

Pallam Raju

He is an alumnus of the Hyderabad Public School (HPS), Begumpet (1971–1979), an Electronics & Communications Engineering graduate (BE) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (1979–1983) and an MBA from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA (1983–1985).

Pearl Van Sciver

Pearl was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia in 1896, the only child of parents Arnold Aiman and Emma G. Rorer.

Peter Stretch

The first settlers of Philadelphia were mainly artisans, many of them belonging to the English gentry, who sold their property and came to America to escape religious persecution.

His shop was at the southeast corner of Front and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, then called “Peter Stretch’s Corner at the Sign of the Dial".

Phil Jasner

Philip Mark "Phil" Jasner (March 24, 1942 – December 3, 2010) was an award-winning sports journalist in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1

In 1838, the PW&B built the first permanent bridge here to complete the first direct rail link from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland.

Prince Hall Freemasonry

Six years later, on March 22, 1797 Prince Hall organized a lodge in Philadelphia, called African Lodge #459, under Prince Hall’s Charter.

Prosper de Mestre

The next record of Prosper de Mestre is not in Martinique, but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as his parents had moved; this is where he received his schooling.

Richard Bache

Richard Bache (1737–1811), born in Settle, Yorkshire, England, immigrated to Philadelphia, in the colony of Pennsylvania, where he was a businessman, a marine insurance underwriter, and later served as head of the American Post Office.

Richard Harlan

Harlan was born in Philadelphia, to Joshua Harlan, a wealthy Quaker merchant, and his wife Sarah, one of their ten children.

Richard Penn Smith

His father was a well-known minister and his grandfather had been the first provost of the College of Philadelphia.

Sarracenia rosea

Wherry sent specimens to Louis Burk, a Philadelphia horticulturalist, who confirmed Wherry's field observations in greenhouse-grown plants.

Sean Singletary

He attended C. W. Henry Elementary School in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, attended The Haverford School and then The Perkiomen School for his freshman and sophomore years of high school, then attended high school at William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia for his junior and senior years.

Sonora Ponceña

In the following years, the band also made presentations in Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, Washington, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Jersey, Panamá, Perú, England, Switzerland and Italy.

Sportbike motorcycle drag racing

He has lived in the Philadelphia area since he was a child and started the love for racing when he was 13 years old.

Stephen Vail

Stephen Vail (1780–1864) was a founding partner of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and the creator of the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey.

Sue Ball

Susan Gabrielle "Sue" Ball (born March 2, 1967 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress.

Swiss American Historical Society

The society publishes the Swiss American Historical Society Review three times a year and meets annually, the location rotating between Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York.

Tanya Hamilton

Her first feature film was Night Catches Us, a portrayal of former Black Panthers reuniting in 1976 Philadelphia.

Ten Mile Loop

The Ten Mile Loop Expressway was a proposed expressway in 1947 by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission to build an expressway along the northern edge of the city of Philadelphia.

From here, it would head northeast through Montgomery County, bypassing the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia to the northwest.

Theater Owners Booking Association

The most prestigious Black theaters in Harlem, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. were not part of the circuit, booking acts independently; The T.O.B.A. was considered less prestigious.

Thomas Balch

Thomas Balch (Leesburg, Virginia, July 23, 1821 — Philadelphia, March 29, 1877) was an American historian, best known for his work on the American Revolutionary War, originally written in French and later translated into English as The French in America during the War of Independence of the United States, 1777-1783.

Thomas Kilby Smith

Smith is buried in Saint Dominic Church Cemetery in Torresdale, Philadelphia.

Thomas R. Kline

Defendants included the City of Philadelphia and its Department of Human Services, which had sent the troubled youth to the facility.

U.S. Route 301

When built, the road, like Delaware Route 1 and I-95, will charge a toll to cover the costs of building the new bypass, which is heavily used by trucks between Philadelphia and the Washington, D.C. metro areas.

What A Summer

In January, What A Summer placed second in her first stakes race, the $25,000 Heirloom Stakes at the old Liberty Bell Race Track in Philadelphia.

Wilfred Harvey Schoff

Besides writing, Schoff also served as Secretary of the Commercial Museum of Philadelphia.

Schoff, Wilfred H., The descendants of Jacob Schoff who came to Boston in 1752 and settled in Ashburnham in 1757 : with an account of the German immigration into colonial New England (Philadelphia : J. McGarrigle, 1910)

William Biles

They went hence in a shallop to Upland, stopping at Takany (Tacony), a village of Swedes and Finns, where they drank good beer.

William J. Ciancaglini

Ciancaglini enrolled in Community College of Philadelphia from 1996 until 1998 before rejoining a full schedule at La Salle University for the Fall of 1998 semester.

William Millward

Millward was born in the old district of Northern Liberties in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Wolf pack Pfadfinder

At 00:24 on 23 May, while en route from Halifax to Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the unescorted 4,455 ton British merchant ship Zurichmoor was torpedoed and sunk by U-432 east of Philadelphia.


56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team

Units of the 111th Infantry trace their lineage back to 1747, when Benjamin Franklin first established his famed "Associators" in Philadelphia.

Aero Commander

Three men funded the company's early efforts: Philadelphia attorney George Pew and Oklahoma City brothers William and Rufus Travis Amis.

Albert Betz

He was the great uncle of the Author Alfred J. Betz from Philadelphia, and great nephew of Vladimir Alekseyevich Betz the discoverer of the pyramidal cell.

American Poetry Center

APC sponsored dozens of poetry readings in Philadelphia featuring personal appearances by such notable figures as Russia's Andrei Voznesensky, Noble Laureates Czeslaw Milosz and Derek Walcott and Canada’s Gaston Miron.

Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine

Arthur's Home Magazine (1852-ca.1898) or Ladies' Home Magazine was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur.

Cadwalader Morris

After the war he had an iron furnace for several years at Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia.

Chaput

Charles J. Chaput, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Claude Giroux

On June 20, 2012, Giroux was named the cover athlete for NHL 13 at the NHL awards in Las Vegas; he became the first Philadelphia Flyer on an EA Sports NHL video game cover since Eric Lindros on NHL 99.

Clayton Scrivner

Clayton Scrivner (born November 15, 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the drummer for the Salt Lake City band The Rodeo Boys.

Commerce Square

To break the deadlock, Philadelphia Plaza Associates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Doc Cheatham

Cheatham played in Albert Wynn's band (and occasionally substituted for Armstrong at the Vendome Theater), and recorded on sax with Ma Rainey before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927, where he worked with the bands of Bobby Lee and Wilbur de Paris before moving to New York City the following year.

East Oak Lane, Philadelphia

East Oak Lane is defined by the borders of Cheltenham Avenue at the north (the border between Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township), Broad Street on the west, Godfrey Avenue at the south, and the Tacony Creek to the east.

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

Elisabeth Elliot

She has lived in Franconia, New Hampshire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Moorestown, New Jersey.

George Bardeen

In 1900, Bardeen was the state's 4th District delegate to the Republican National Committee; attending the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia that year.

James A. Leonard

In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.

Jesse Ceci

He was also concertmaster of four major ballet companies—the Pennsylvania Ballet from Philadelphia, the New York City Center Ballet, the Harkness Ballet of New York and the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto where he did all of the solo work for Rudolf Nureyev.

Joshua Cohen

Josh Cohen, tennis player, head coach of Philadelphia Freedoms

Juliet Cariaga

She was named, along with Alexandria Karlsen as one of several women connected with Philadelphia businessman Andrew Yao, who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud, and later plead guilty to ten counts of fraud and money laundering for lying about and concealing gambling expenditures and extravagant gifts to former Playboy and Penthouse models.

Kensington Renewal Initiative

The Kensington Renewal Initiative (KRI) is a Philadelphia-based advocacy and community development organization founded by film director, Jamie Moffett.

Largest cities in the United States by population by decade

The 1854 Act of Consolidation greatly expanded the City of Philadelphia to its present borders, coterminous with Philadelphia County.

Lubin Manufacturing Company

Aided by French-born writer and poet Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, who served as the studio's publicity manager, in 1910 Siegmund Lubin built a state of the art studio on the corner of Indiana avenue and Twentieth Street in Philadelphia that became known as "Lubinville."

Mary Willing Byrd

Her father, Charles Willing, was the mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1748 to 1754, and her great-grandfather, Edward Shippen, was the second mayor of Philadelphia from 1701 to 1703.

Max Rosenthal

In 1847 he went to Paris, where he studied lithography, drawing, and painting with M. Thurwanger, with whom he came to Philadelphia in 1849, and completed his studies.

National Lacrosse League

1998 Philadelphia Wings 2–0 Baltimore Thunder (Best of 3 Games Series)

New York City Police Department Highway Patrol

Only a few other cities feature a similarly elite unit, most notably Philadelphia and its Philadelphia Highway Patrol and Boston and its Boston Police Special Operations Unit.

Patrick McCartan

They persuaded Éamon de Valera to support the Philadelphia branch of Clan na Gael against the New York branch led by John Devoy and Judge Daniel Cohalan in their struggle to focus the resources of the Friends of Irish Freedom to Irish independence rather than domestic American politics.

Paul Deanno

Previously, Paul worked as the Chief Meteorologist for WTVJ-TV (NBC6) in Miami, FL, and also worked as a meteorologist at KOMO-TV in Seattle, KYW-TV in Philadelphia, KENS in San Antonio, KREM (TV) in Spokane, and KDRV in Medford.

Pennsylvania Route 563

Lake Nockamixon was intended to fill a gap in between the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas.

Republican National Convention

It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.

Romaine Fielding

Born William Grant Blandin in Riceville, Iowa, he worked and acted in live theatre for a number of years until 1911 when he turned to acting, writing and directing silent films for Philadelphia-based Lubin Studios.

Ruth Ann Swenson

Born in Bronxville, New York and raised in Commack, New York on Long Island, Swenson studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and briefly at Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Saint Mary's Church, Hamilton Village

A former rector, The Rev. John Scott, was known for having performed an exorcism of the Philadelphia campaign headquarters of Richard Nixon, and was the founder of the Philadelphia Third Order Franciscans, a worldwide lay religious community.

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet

In 1774 his first American customer was the leading Philadelphia merchant, Willing, Morris & Co.; its influential partners included Robert Morris, a future financial architect of American independence from Britain, and Thomas Willing, a future president of the Bank of the United States.

Solar compass

The instrument was then submitted to a committee at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

Storer Communications

Although the company had success in the Top 40 rock and roll format with WJBK in Detroit and WIBG "Wibbage" in Philadelphia, most of its radio stations, including WJW and WSPD, featured more conservative music formats, typically middle-of-the-road (MOR) or beautiful music.

The Blum Store

The store was comparable in quality, style, and reputation to larger chains Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor and was one of the premier chains headquartered in Philadelphia, selling women's clothing and accessories and children's clothing.

The Correct Use of Soap

Two songs on the album make reference to elements of works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, namely "Philadelphia" referring to 'Raskolnikov', the main character in Crime and Punishment, and "A Song from Under the Floorboards" of which the opening sentence is a paraphrase of the opening sentence in Notes from Underground'.

The Gallery at Market East

The downtown Philadelphia Greyhound bus terminal is immediately to the north, at 10th and Filbert Streets.

The Mysteries of Paris

Ned Buntline wrote The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in 1848, but the leading American writer in the genre was George Lippard whose best seller was The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (1844); he went on to found the paper The Quaker City as a vehicle for more of his mysteries and miseries.

The Tyrones

The Tyrones were a popular Philadelphia rock and roll group of the 1950s run by Tyrone DeNittis and featuring George Lesser that recorded a number of hit songs including "Blast Off" and "I'm Shook" and appeared singing "Blast Off" in the film Let's Rock.

Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr.

Under the aegis of noted landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland, he relocated to Philadelphia in 1872, to work on development of the planned community of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Preston Carpenter

At the breaking out of the American Civil War, he joined the Union League of Philadelphia, and gave his entire sympathies to the Union cause.

Tolib Shakhidi

The musical pieces of the composer have been performed by such orchestras as Philadelphia & Boston Symphony Orchestra, State Symphonic Orchestra of USSR, Orchestra of Valery Gergiev, Bolshoy Symphonic Orchestra of Russia n.a. Tchaikovsky, Orchestra of Cinematography conducted by Sergei Skripka, Saint Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra n.a Dmitri Shostakovich.

Walter Rand Transportation Center

Northbound service is available to the Trenton Transit Center with connections to New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor Line, SEPTA trains to Philadelphia, and Amtrak trains.

William Byrd III

Byrd III eventually fathered five children by his first wife (Eliza Carter, m. 1748, d. 1760), and fathered ten more by his second wife, Mary Willing, daughter of Charles Willing of Philadelphia.

William Milnor

He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia, and was elected as a Federalist to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses.