Stephen Freeman
Most of what is known about Stephen comes from his obituary as told by his sister. His parents were Earl and Elizabeth and he also had three brothers, Philip, Richard,…
Read MoreHelen Damon Paschall Proctor, M.D.
Not many people realize that the neighborhood adjoining Mount Moriah Cemetery in Southwest Philadelphia was one of the first real estate transactions William Penn made after he received his charter…
Read MoreJames Asbury Ogden, M.D., Ph.D.
The Ogdens were among the first families to settle in William Penn’s city of brotherly love. A book published in 1899, “The Quaker Ogdens in America” traced David Ogden’s arrival…
Read MoreLois Esther Christensen, R.N.
She was a newly graduated registered nurse and a recently commissioned officer in the Air Force. Had she lived longer, her tour of duty would have included service in Vietnam.…
Read MoreBarton Lisle Wright, M.D.
The father of Barton Wright was a Naval veteran of the Civil War and a native of Brooklyn, New York. Charles married a woman from Maryland in 1869 and Barton,…
Read MoreWalter Edmund Uffenheimer, D.D.S.
Born in his mother’s hometown of Boston, Walter was the second of three boys. Catharine married Louis Uffenheimer after his job brought him there from Philadelphia, where his father had…
Read MoreRobert J. McClatchey, M.D.
“Healing the sick” was sometimes more luck than science in the mid-19th century. Robert grew up in a time and place where an alternative to “traditional” medicine known as homeopathy…
Read MoreWalter George Wilkins, M.D.
The story of Walter’s childhood is blank, except that he was born in New York to parents of English descent, but whether it refers to the city of New York…
Read MoreLevi Jay Hammond, M.D.
Jay was his commonly used name, born on Kent Island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay just east of Annapolis, Maryland. The family moved to Dover and then to…
Read MoreMargaret Anna Pulver Smith
The Pulver family had three daughters when they were living in the town of Wayne, New York in the Finger Lakes region. Margaret was the middle child of the three,…
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