David Hindman Cochran
David grew up in the Mill Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia, the son of a salesman and his wife, with an older brother and sister. By age 18 he was…
Read MoreJoseph Edward Mahaney
In the years just before and after the dawn of the 20th century a letter carrier and his wife had eleven children while living in the East Germantown section of…
Read MoreWilliam Henry Dougherty
The youngest of nine children, Bill was born when his parents were in their 40s. Bill’s father was a Civil War veteran and served for a time as a city…
Read MoreThomas W. Dougherty
The Doughertys had nine children and the five who were living with them in 1900 were all boys. The only girl had just married and moved out. Because Tom was…
Read MoreDaniel Webster Zeising
Daniel’s ancestral roots were in Germany and his family had strong ties to books. His father was a printer and publisher most of his life, and two of his three…
Read MoreJoseph Arthur O’Connell
The O’Connell family’s roots were in Morris, Illinois, a rural community 60 miles southwest of Chicago. The family had fraternal twins in 1894, Art and Alice, although Art’s given name…
Read MoreMalcom MacFarlane
The big dark gray gravestone at the far right of this photograph stands in sharp contrast to the neat and uniformly spaced rows of plain marble markers that characterize a…
Read MoreGeorge Summers McClung
George had three sisters and three brothers to grow up with in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia next to East Fairmount Park. They were raised by their mother Maria and…
Read MoreHarry Edward Challenger
When Harry Edward was born in Philadelphia on January 25, 1891 his father, Dr. Harry P. Challenger, was 36 and a local physician. His mother, Margaret, was 22 who gave…
Read MoreEdward Arthur Steele
Edward was the fourth of nine children born to a Swedish immigrant, Frans Stäl (who anglicized his name to Frank Steele) and his Norwegian immigrant wife, Louise. Like a lot…
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