Thomas Silver

There were about 860 people in Greenwich Township, New Jersey the year Thomas was born, which is 100 more than there are today. Sitting on the north shore of the…

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William Barber

William Barber and Anna Maria Coultart were born in London and married there in 1830, when they were in their early twenties. Their first child arrived a year later with…

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Frank Morris Fink

Frank was born in the little residential borough of Sharon Hill in southeastern Delaware County. He was born to Walter and Sara, the fifth of eight children, and named after…

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John Love

John was a bricklayer his entire working life, aside from his military service. Street after street of similar-looking houses with brick exteriors, called “row houses,” were being built in South…

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Luigi Germani

Born in Italy in 1820, Luigi Germani became a member of the Royal Italian Circus when he was 18 years old. The horseback rider, performer and juggler came to the…

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John Henry McCullough

Actor John McCullough in costume

The birthplace of John Henry McCullough was by some accounts in Londonderry and by others in Coleraine, County Antrim, Ireland. His mother died in 1846, making him and his sister…

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