Bickley Family
The Bickley family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, has been well and favorably known in the State for considerable more than a century. The earlier members of the family came to this country, from...
View ArticleBickley, Walter Scott
Walter Scott Bickley, son of Mortimer Horning (q. v.) and Rebecca (Weaver) Bickley, was born in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1866. The public schools furnished him with a good,...
View ArticleJones, Joseph Warner
Joseph Warner Jones, of Chester, Pennsylvania, a retired farmer and capitalist well known in his State, is of direct Welsh origin. The immigrant ancestor probably landed at Philadelphia before 1800,...
View ArticleSproul, William C.
William C. Sproul, Delaware Co., was born at Octoraro, Lancastor Co., PA Sept. 16, 1870; moved to Chester in early boyhood, and has since resided in that city. Attended public schools and graduated...
View ArticleWard, William Jr.
William Ward, Jr., Delaware Co., was born in Chester, Delaware Co., PA, July 7, 1865; educated in the public schools and was graduated from the Chester High School in 1883; entered the law office of...
View ArticleJones, Wiliam D. Jr.
William D. Jones Jr., Delaware Co., was born in Haverford Twp., Delaware Co., PA, Feb. 10, 1872; educated in the public schools and the West Chester State Normal School; conducted a general...
View ArticleKANE, John Clifford, Sr.
Born in 1892 in Philadelphia, one of four children of immigrants, John & Elizabeth MARTIN KANE from the Cookstown area of Northern Ireland. He had an older brother, Barkley and a younger brother,...
View ArticleBarnard, Isaac Dutton
Isaac Dutton Barnard, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Aston Township, Delaware County, Pa., July 18, 1791; moved with his parents to a farm near Chester, Pa.; attended the public schools; moved...
View ArticleBroomall, John Martin
John Martin Broomall, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Upper Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pa., January 19, 1816; attended private schools; taught school for several years; studied...
View ArticleEdwards, John
John Edwards, (granduncle of John Edwards Leonard), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Ivy Mills, Delaware County, Pa., in 1786; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced...
View ArticleEdwards, Samuel
Samuel Edwards, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Chester Township, Delaware County, Pa., March 12, 1785; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806 and...
View ArticleGilpin, Edward
EDWARD GILPIN, eldest son of Vincent and Abigail (Woodward) Gilpin, was born near Wilmington, Delaware, April 27, 1760. He was reared to the mercantile branch of his father's business, and as a very...
View ArticleGrundy, Joseph Ridgway
Joseph Ridgway Grundy, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Camden, N.J., on January 13, 1863; attended private and public schools and Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.; engaged in the textile...
View ArticleMcKean, Thomas, Gov.
Son of a Scotch-Irish immigrant, McKean rose through the influence of his mother's family, the Finneys, and was admitted to the bar in New Castle, Delaware, in 1754. He was a Presbyterian. He entered...
View ArticleHILL, Grace Livingston
330 WHO'S WHO IN PENNSYLVANIA. HILL, Grace Livingston: Author; born at Wellsville. N. Y., April 16. 1865; educated at Elmira, N. Y. College for Women and Cincinnati Art School. Conducts Christian...
View ArticleWorrall, William
William Worrall was born in Marple township, now part of Delaware county, fourteen miles from Philadelphia, on the twenty ninth of November, 1730. When he first visited Philadelphia, the Court was...
View ArticleMiller, George
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. - MEETING OF THE DELAWARE COUNTY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE. This association held its regular monthly meeting at Institute Hall, in Media, on Saturday afternoon last, the attendance...
View ArticleThomas, Phebe
Centennial Birthday of Phebe Thomas. On Wednesday last, the 7th inst., a very interesting meeting of relatives assembled at Philip Paxson's in East Bradford, near Strodemill, Chester county, to...
View ArticleScott, Charles Henry
CHARLES HENRY SCOTT, born at Philadelphia, June 29, 1849; died at Radnor, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1915. The son of John Caile Scott, by his wife Louisianna Eleanor Slesman, grandson of John Caile...
View ArticleLewis, George Harrison
GEORGE HARRISON LEWIS, son of George Davis Lewis, by his wife Hannah Andrews Bunting, born at Clifton Heights, Delaware County, March 7, 1879; died at Altoona, November 27, 1915, and was buried at...
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