Carolyn Marqueze Halliday Price
Carolyn Marqueze Halliday was born in Philadelphia, the only daughter of Margaret Cushing Baker Phillippe and James S. Halliday but she had three half-siblings from her mother’s first marriage to…
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Well known among the Masonic lodges of Pennsylvania, William Bockius Schnider was born into a family with a long history of involvement in the most popular of the “secret fraternities.”…
Read MoreThe Flat Rock Dam Drowning Incident
On May 30, 1901, most residents of Philadelphia were probably celebrating Decoration Day – a day set aside to acknowledge, commemorate and honor those who fought and died in the…
Read MoreDavid Linn
David Linn was born in Philadelphia about 1861 but the exact date is not known. He enlisted at Philadelphia and served as a Sergeant in Company C of the US…
Read MoreWilliam H. Burrell
William H. Burrell was born about 1822, one of 12 children who were grandchildren of a captain in the American Revolution. Census records indicate that he was born in northern…
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