Charles Mangione, Jr.
When the U.S. Census was taken in 1910, Charles’ mother was 23 years old with five children under the age of 7, with Charles Jr. being the middle child. Her…
Read MoreJohn Forbes
John grew up just a few blocks south of Mount Moriah, within walking distance of Penrose Elementary School. In June, 1942, when he was 18, he registered for the draft,…
Read MoreGeorge Daniel Ferrell
The Ferrells were residents of the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia when George was born in 1911. They had just one other child, a daughter, three years later. The…
Read MoreJohn Daniel Duckworth
John was born in Connellsville Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, but grew up just south of here in Elmwood Park. He walked to John Bartram High School (shown here as a student)…
Read MoreJohn William Daley
John grew up in Elmwood Park, just south of Mount Moriah, with seven siblings, and was known by them as Jackie. Most documents show 1925 as his year of birth…
Read MoreRobert Barclay Averell
This typical American teenager came from a typical American family, with two parents, a brother and a sister. His grandparents were from Ireland, his father was a pipefitter at the…
Read MoreErnest Arthur Rosen
“Ernie” was the fourth of five sons born to a Russian immigrant named Abraham Israel Rosen. He had arrived in Boston, married a local girl, and opened a grocery store…
Read MoreJoseph Matthias Quigley
An immigrant from Northern Ireland named Patrick Quigley became a storekeeper in Philadelphia and raised three children. One of them was Joseph’s father, named Joseph Patrick Quigley, and Joseph was…
Read MoreAlfred Lodor Wanamaker, Jr.
Philadelphians associate the Wanamaker name with the once-famous department store, but in the 1890s there were other clothing stores in Center City run by John Wanamaker’s brothers, including Francis Marion…
Read MoreGeorge Brasko
George was the fourth of five children born to Slovakian immigrants John and Anna Brasko. His father was in the Army from 1899-1904 and helped start The Assumption of the…
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