Charles E. Wilson
Charles grew up with two younger brothers in the Queen Village section of Philadelphia where his father was a cooper, making barrels for a sugar refiner on the banks of…
Read MoreWilliam Edwin Mason
The Masons came from Maine to Philadelphia a few years after Edwin was born. (Marriage and census documents show his first name as Edwin since that is how he was…
Read MoreFrancis Sims Morozzi
An Italian New Yorker named Angelo Morozzi met and married an Irish Philadelphian, Emma Robertson, on August 30, 1863 when he was 36 years old and she was 30. She…
Read MoreWilliam Davis Johnston
Other than his birth in New Jersey, William’s early years are undocumented until he was 22 years old and became the groom of Anna McManus. The wedding ceremony was in…
Read MoreWilliam Henry Neinburg
The early years and roots of William Neinburg are not known but he started married life and fatherhood at 19 when wife Elizabeth gave birth to their daughter. Scarlet fever…
Read MoreJohn J. Watson
John’s family size was smaller than average for that era, since he had just one sibling, a sister. His parents were Philadelphians, his mother’s parents came from Ireland, and when…
Read MoreJames Proctor
The year James Proctor was born could have been 1835, 1838, or 1840, depending on the source. He was born in Ireland, as was his wife Charlotte, who married him…
Read MoreNorman W. Stinger
The Stinger family’s roots in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia go back to 1770, and originated in Germany. The tree that sprung from those roots grew a lot of…
Read MoreWilliam John Boyd, Jr.
He was known as William Jr. but he was actually the third generation with the same name. His grandparents were Irish immigrants and his father was a veteran police officer.…
Read MoreAugust Friedrich Brusius
Gus was one of six children of German immigrants, but three died in childhood, two of them in the same year Gus was born. When he was 2 years old…
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