John Raymond Murphy
John came from a Philadelphia family with an older sister and younger brother. Their father died in 1902 when John was 5. His mother remarried and it wasn’t long before…
Read MoreWilliam John McNeill
William grew up in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia less than a block east of the Schuylkill River. His parents, Albert and Annie, rented a row house for their…
Read MoreWilliam Thomas McKnight, Jr.
He was known as Bill, and as “Mac” by his buddies. The senior class at West Philadelphia High School chose to remember him and Josephine Maas as “best looking,” earning…
Read MoreCharles Mangione, Jr.
When the U.S. Census was taken in 1910, Charles’ mother was 23 years old with five children under the age of 7, with Charles Jr. being the middle child. Her…
Read MoreLawrence Cooper Law, Jr.
At the dawn of the 20th Century, the Law family was living in Philadelphia and there were two daughters and a son. A few years later Lawrence Senior moved the…
Read MoreRobert L. Kennedy
Robert was born just to the west of Philadelphia in Delaware County on March 23, 1933. His mother was 19 at the time, and his father was 23, a drill…
Read MoreThomas H. Hunsworth
The Hunsworth family included three boys and three girls when the 1860 census was taken. Father John was a partner in the Hunsworth & Naylor Iron Foundry, also known as…
Read MoreGeorge Raymond Gosner
There is more personal information available for George’s family than there is for him, and that’s not very much. He was born on June 24, 1898 in Philadelphia to William…
Read MoreJohn Forbes
John grew up just a few blocks south of Mount Moriah, within walking distance of Penrose Elementary School. In June, 1942, when he was 18, he registered for the draft,…
Read MoreGeorge Daniel Ferrell
The Ferrells were residents of the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia when George was born in 1911. They had just one other child, a daughter, three years later. The…
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