William J. Porter
Bill was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, between Altoona and Harrisburg, where his parents, William and Helen, grew up. He was their only child, and within a few months of…
Read MoreEvelyn Hope George
Home for the George family in the early 1900s was New Castle, Pennsylvania, close to the Ohio border near Youngstown. It was a one-industry town, and Evelyn’s father worked at…
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 MoreStephen William Johnston
This grandson of a Civil War veteran might not have even known that part of his grandfather’s life story. After the war grandpa Alexander Johnston was a house painter (read…
Read MoreAlexander J. Johnston
Alex, as he was known, had the name given to both his uncle and his grandfather, an Irish veteran of the Civil War. Both men, like Alex’s father, William, made…
Read MoreElmer William McAlpin
There were seven boys born to Samuel and Louise McAlpin during the first quarter of the 20th century. Their father was born in Scotland and was a coppersmith at the…
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 MoreFrank Morris Fink
Frank was born in the little residential borough of Sharon Hill in southeastern Delaware County. He was born to Walter and Sara, the fifth of eight children, and named after…
Read MorePaul Edward Culbertson
Collingswood, New Jersey was Paul’s hometown although his parents were Philadelphians whose lineage were Irish and German. They made their home in the Garden State suburb because his father’s lifelong…
Read MoreRichard Albert Moffitt
Richard was raised with an older brother and sister, Fred and Florence, by their parents, Charles and Sarah. The Moffitt house was on Larchwood Street, just around the corner from…
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