Philemon Dickerson (January 11, 1788 – December 10, 1862) was a United States congressman representing New Jersey, and was later a United States federal judge. He was the brother of Governor, then Un...

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John Griffith McCullough (September 16, 1835 – May 29, 1915) was an American businessperson and attorney. He was Attorney General of California during the Civil War, and the 49th Governor of Vermont ...

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Charles Robert Miller (September 30, 1857 – September 18, 1927) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware Ge...

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Dr. Gove Saulsbury (May 29, 1815 – July 31, 1881) was an American physician and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and he served in the Delaware...

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) William Burton (October 16, 1789 – August 5, 1866) was an American physician and politician from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as Governor o...

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George Michael Leader (born January 17, 1918) served as the 36th Governor of Pennsylvania from January 18, 1955 until January 20, 1959. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a native of York Co...

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De Benneville "Bert" Bell (February 25, 1895 – October 11, 1959) was the National Football League (NFL) commissioner from 1945 until his death in 1959. As commissioner, he introduced competitive pa...

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. John Cromwell Bell, Jr. (October 25, 1892 – March 21, 1974) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. He was the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1943–1947) before becoming the 33rd...

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. Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (February 21, 1845 – January 8, 1905), a member of the United States Republican Party, was the 43rd Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1896 to 1900 and a member of th...

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Thomas King Carroll (April 29, 1793 – October 3, 1873) served as the 21st Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States from 1830 to 1831. He also served as a judge, and in the Maryland Hous...

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Horace Stern (1878-1969) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1 November 1952 to 29 December 1956. He was elevated to the Chief Justice position after serving on the Court fr...

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Malcolm Henry Stern was born on January 29, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stern was the son of Arthur Kaufman and Henrietta Berkowitz Stern and had one brother, Edward. In 1923 the Stern family ...

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From the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906: American journalist; born in Philadelphia Nov. 9, 1826; educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, whence he was graduated in 1847. Shortly afterwar...

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Zalegman Phillips: Lawyer; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1795, and became one of the leading criminal lawyers of Philadelphia.

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John Mercer Patton (August 10, 1797 – October 29, 1858) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Patton attended Princeton University and grad...

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Moses Levy (b. Philadelphia 1757; d. there May 9, 1826) was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1776. On March 19, 1778, he was admitted to the bar; from 1802 to 1822...

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Entered Univ. of PA in 1760.

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James Cook Ayer (5 May 1818 Groton, Connecticut - 3 July 1878 Winchendon, Massachusetts) was the wealthiest patent medicine businessman of his day. Dr. Ayer was also brother of wealthy industrialist ...

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John Meredith Read (July 21, 1797 – November 29, 1874) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and Chief J...

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Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (April 9, 1843 – September 2, 1916) was the 23rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was the fourth great-grandson of Abraham op den Gr...

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George Woodward was an important figure in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania progressive politics for 50 years. Son of a well-known Wilkes-Barre lawyer, and grandson of Judge George Washington Woodward...

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Austin Phelps (January 7, 1820—October 13, 1890), was an American Congregational minister and educator. He was for 10 years President of the Andover Theological Seminary and his writings became stand...

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Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter (September 2, 1922 – July 1, 2011) was an anthropologist best known for his work on tribal art and visual media. Early life Born in Rochester, New York to the arti...

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Elisha Kent Kane (28 February 1820 – 16 February 1857) was a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions to rescue t...

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Lawrence McCully Judd (March 20, 1887 – October 4, 1968) was a politician of the Territory of Hawaii, serving as the seventh Territorial Governor. He was devoted to the Hansen's Disease-afflicted res...

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Elisha Cullen Dick, M.D. (15 March 1762 in Chester County, Pennsylvania – 22 September 1825, at his property Cottage Farm) was a mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, and attending physician at George Washi...

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Dwight Locke Wilbur (1904 – 1997) was a medical doctor and president of the American Medical Association. During his 1968-69 tenure, he was instrumental in convincing that organization to accept Me...

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Pliny Earle II, MD (December 31, 1809 - 1892) was an American physician, psychiatrist, and poet. Biography Pliny Earle was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and was the son of the inventor Pl...

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Granville Roland Fortescue (October 12, 1875-April 21, 1952) was an American soldier, a Rough Rider serving with his cousin, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba, a presidential aide in the first Roose...

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Richard Chichester Mason (7 May 1793–22 July 1869) was a prominent physician practicing in Alexandria, Virginia. Mason was a grandson of George Mason and his wife Ann Eilbeck. Early life and educ...

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Medical doctor, and architect whose works in South Carolina attained National Historic Landmarks status; he was also the father of Confederate General Richard H. Anderson. He designed buildings a...

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David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892) was an American surgeon. Biography He was born on November 24, 1818 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the medical dep...

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Carrie Burnham Kilgore (1838-1909) First woman to graduate from the Universitity of Pennsylvania with a law degree (LL.B.) and the first woman to practice law in both Philadelphia and Pennsylvania; o...

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James Harry Covington, II (May 3, 1870 – February 4, 1942) was an American jurist and politician. He represented the Maryland's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representative...

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E. Wallace Chadwick (January 17, 1884–August 18, 1969) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. E. Wallace Chadwick was born in Vincennes, Indiana, and move...

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William Draper Lewis (1867–1949) was the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1896-1914) and the founding director (1923-1947) of the American Law Institute. Persona...

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Alice Paul was an American suffragist leader. Along with her close friend Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendm...

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) William Walker (May 8, 1824– September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist and adventurer, who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intent...

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Joseph Rodman West (September 19, 1822 – October 31, 1898) was a United States Senator from Louisiana and a general in the United States Army during and after the American Civil War. As a commander...

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John Selby Spence (February 29, 1788 – October 24, 1840) was an American politician. Born near Snow Hill, Maryland, Spence attended the common schools and graduated from the medical department ...

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George Wharton Pepper (March 16, 1867 – May 24, 1961) was an American lawyer, law professor, and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United State...

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Peter Muhlenberg John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (October 1, 1746 – October 1, 1807) was a clergyman, a soldier and a politician of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Post-Revolutionary eras in Pennsyl...

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James Murray Mason (November 3, 1798 – April 28, 1871) was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Virginia. He was a grandson of George Mason and represented the Confederate St...

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Lewis Fields Linn (November 5, 1796 – October 3, 1843) was a Jacksonian Democratic U.S. Senator for the state of Missouri born in Kentucky. He served in that role from 1833 to 1843. Four states named...

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George Robertson Dennis (April 8, 1822 – August 13, 1882), a Democrat, was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1873-1879. He also served in the Maryland State Senate and the Maryland ...

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Simon Barclay Conover (September 23, 1840 – April 19, 1908) was a Republican Senator from Florida. Biography Born in Middlesex County, New Jersey, Conover attended an academy in Trenton, New ...

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Henry H. Chambers (October 1, 1790 – January 24, 1826) was an American politician, who served as the Democratic-Republican U.S. senator from the state of Alabama from March 4, 1825 until his death. H...

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Joseph Maull Carey (January 19, 1845 – February 5, 1924) was a lawyer, rancher, judge, and politician, who spent most of his political career in Wyoming before and after it achieved statehood. Bi...

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Clayton Douglass Buck (March 21, 1890 – January 27, 1965) was an American engineer and politician from New Castle Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of...

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William Wyatt Bibb (October 2, 1781 – July 10, 1820) was a United States Senator from Georgia and the first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. Bibb County, Alabama, and Bibb County, Georgia, are ...

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Ephraim Bateman (July 9, 1780 – January 28, 1829) represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1826 to 1829 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1815–1823. Born in Ce...

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Dr. Lewis Heisler Ball (September 21, 1861 – October 18, 1932) was an American physician and politician from Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, near Stanton. He was a member of the Repu...

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James Wilson (1742–1798) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, and wa...

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) Richard Peters (June 22, 1744 – August 22, 1828) sometimes Richard Peters, Jr., to distinguish from his uncle, though this can also mean his son Richard), was an American lawyer, jurist, and politi...

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William Paca (October 31, 1740 – October 23, 1799) was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland, and later Governor of Maryland and a United States f...

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Cadwalader Morris (February 19, 1741 – January 25, 1795) was an American merchant and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution, he was a member of the First Troop ...

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) Dr. Henry Latimer (April 24, 1752 – December 19, 1819) was an American physician and politician from Newport, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was elected to the Continental Congress from Delawar...

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) David Jackson (1747 – September 17, 1801) was an American apothecary and physician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1785. Jacks...

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Joseph Hopkinson (November 12, 1770 – January 15, 1842) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and later a United States federal judge. Early life, education, and ca...

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William Hindman (April 1, 1743 – January 19, 1822) was an American lawyer and statesman from Talbot County, Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress, and in the federal Congres...

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DAR Ancestor #: A056084 Whitmell Hill (February 12, 1743 – September 26, 1797) was an American planter from Martin County, North Carolina. He was a delegate for North Carolina to the Continental Co...

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William Grayson (1740 – March 12, 1790) was a soldier, lawyer, and statesman from Virginia. He was one of the first two U.S. Senators from Virginia, and belonged to the Anti-Federalist faction. Grays...

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Robert Goldsborough (December 3, 1733 – December 22, 1788) was an American lawyer and statesman from Maryland. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. Robert was the son of Charles G...

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Philemon Dickinson (April 5, 1739 – February 4, 1809) was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey. As a brigadier general of the New Jersey militia, he was one of the most effectiv...

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Lambert Cadwalader (December 1742 – September 13, 1823) was an American merchant and leader in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He fought in the Revolutionary War, then represented New Jersey in the Cont...

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Elias Boudinot (May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a U.S. Congressman for New Jersey. He also serve...

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An American statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801. He ...

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) Andrew Allen (June 1740 – March 7, 1825) was a lawyer and official from the Province of Pennsylvania. Born into an influential family, Allen initially favored the colonial cause in the American Rev...

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From “Work Family History”, vol. I (1969) & vol. II (1994), compiled by Von Gail Hamilton. Hubert planned to go to CA to practice medicine after he graduated from medical school. He stopped in Greele...

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Wylie Glidden Woodruff (March 4, 1866 – June 21, 1930) was an American football player and coach. He played guard at the University of Pennsylvania under his older brother, George Washington Woodruff...

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George Washington Woodruff (February 22, 1864 – March 24, 1934) was an American football player, rower, coach, teacher, lawyer and politician. He served as the head football coach at the University o...

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George Woodward Wickersham (September 19, 1858 – January 25, 1936) was an American lawyer and Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He was the father of Cornelius Wendell Wickersham, US Army Brigadier Gene...

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Robert served two terms as Sentor from Mississippi, was nominated for Vise President of the US in 1844, served as Secetary of the Treasury under President Polk. He was also appointed governor of Kans...

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Benjamin Stoddert (1751 – December 13, 1813) was the first United States Secretary of the Navy from May 1, 1798 to March 31, 1801. Early life Stoddert was born in Charles County, Maryland, in...

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Caesar Augustus Rodney (January 4, 1772 – June 10, 1824) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who...

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Thomas McKean Pettit (1797–1853) was a United States lawyer, politician, and judge who was briefly Director of the United States Mint in 1853 before his death in office. Biography Thomas M....

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) Samuel Moore (February 8, 1774 – February 18, 1861) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Samuel Moore was born in Deerfield, New Jersey (now Deerfield Street). H...

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William Morris Meredith (June 8, 1799 – August 17, 1873) was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1812. After h...

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Henry Martyn Hoyt (1856-1910) — also known as Henry M. Hoyt — Born in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., December 5, 1856. Son of Henry Martyn Hoyt (1830-1892) and Mary (Loveland) Hoyt; married 1883 to...

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Henry Dilworth Gilpin (April 14, 1801 – January 29, 1860) was an American lawyer and statesman of Quaker extraction who served as Attorney General of the United States. He was the son of Joshua G...

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Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr. (April 10, 1906 – March 25, 1983) was United States Secretary of Defense from 1959 to 1961 under President Eisenhower. He was promoted from deputy secretary of defense. Dur...

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. Thomas Sovereign Gates (March 21, 1873 – April 8, 1948) was an American investment banker and educator. He was the first president of the University of Pennsylvania from 6 October 1930 until 1944, ...

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Lindley Miller Garrison (November 28, 1864 – October 19, 1932) was a New Jersey lawyer who served as Secretary of War under U.S. President Woodrow Wilson between 1913 and 1916. Biography Garr...

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) Bradford (September 14, 1755 – August 23, 1795) was a lawyer and judge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the second United States Attorney General in 1794-1795. He was the son of the printer...

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Branch Tanner Archer (1790–1856) was a Texan who served as Commissioner to the United States and Speaker of the House of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives and Secretary of War of the Rep...

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Henry M. Chance II was president and chairman of United Engineers & Constructors in Philadelphia and a longtime University of Pennsylvania trustee. Henry Chance succeeded his father as president of U...

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Britton Chance (July 24, 1913 – November 16, 2010) was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry an...

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By the time the War of 1812 began, Baltimore’s William Winder had acquired a reputation as one of the best lawyers in Maryland. When the war started, he was given the rank of colonel and sent to the Ni...

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Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military...

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James Tilton (June 1, 1745– May 14, 1822) Born and died in Kent County, Delaware Parents: Thomas Tilton, Jr. b.1714 and Sabrah Allee 1740-1790 Wife: Never married Children: No descendents James...

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William Tilghman (August 12, 1756 – April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, jurist and statesman from Maryland. He served as the Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court from 1805 to 182...

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Tench Tilghman (December 25, 1744–April 18, 1786) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary war. He served as an aide de camp to General George Washington, achieving th...

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Samuel George Morton (1799–1851) was an American physician and natural scientist. Morton, reared a Quaker but became Episcopalian in midlife, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated fro...

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James St. Clair Morton (September 24, 1829 - June 17, 1864) was an American soldier, engineer and writer. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, primarily serving in ...

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Thomas Mifflin , 10 January 1744 - 20 January 1800, was a merchant, member and 11th President of the Continental Congress, a Revolutionary soldier and Governor of Pennsylvania (1790-1799). Parents:...

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Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs (February 19, 1792 - June 22, 1869) was an influential American obstetrician of the nineteenth century who is remembered for his opposition to obstetrical anesthesia and to t...

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Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (May 3, 1816 – January 2, 1892) was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, construction engineer for a number of facilities in Washington, D.C., and Quartermas...

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