
Wikipedia The institution now known as the Katz Center was founded in 1907 as the Dropsie College of Hebrew and Cognate Learning and finally as Dropsie University. It was named after its benefactor, Moses Aaron Dropsie (1821–1905), a wealthy man whose father was Jewish and mother was Christian but who self-identified as Jewish from the age of 14. Dropsie willed his entire fortune to "the prom...
Drexel University College of Medicine is the medical school of Drexel University, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The medical school represents the consolidation of two medical schools: Hahnemann Medical College, originally founded as the nation's first college of homeopathy, and the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first U.S. medical school for women,[1...
The cemetery is located on 1701 East Washington Lane and originally called the Philadelphia Crematorium , the first in Philadelphia, opening in 1888. The ashes were either given to the family or placed in the columbarium, a building used just for the display of the urns. 30 acres were subsequently purchased surrounding the crematorium and it became know as Chelten Hills Cemetery. Email: chelte...
===Passengers of the "Princess Augusta," arriving in Philadelphia, September 16, 1736. ===The Journey From >... Were it not for the St Blaise vital records of Ban de la Roche, the ship manifest of the Princess Augusta that sailed in 1736 may have looked like a document about individuals and not an entire region from Alsace. However, placing the manifest alongside the Ban de la Roche records, on...
Cedar Hill Cemetery is an historic cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established by a company incorporated on March 25, 1850. The main gatehouse was built in 1869. Find-a-Grave Local Cemeteries.net
Wikipedia The Agnes Irwin School is a non-sectarian college preparatory day school for girls from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. It was founded in 1869 by Agnes Irwin in Philadelphia. Irwin, a great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, later became the first dean of Radcliffe College. In 1933, the campus moved to Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, and then to its present location in Rosemont i...
Mount Peace Cemetery is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . It is owned and operated by the Odd Fellows organization. It was established in 1865 and is located at 3111 West Lehigh Avenue, near the Laurel Hill Cemetery . The cemetery property was originally part of the colonial estate of Robert Ralston and kept the estate name of Mount Peace. Another portion of the estate was used for the creation ...
Wikipedia West Chester University of Pennsylvania (WCUPA) is a public university located in West Chester, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Philadelphia. It is one of the 14 state universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). West Chester was ranked 69th in the Master's Universities (North) category by U.S. News & World Report for 2009. The school is a...
This project is for those buried in Salem German Reformed Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
This Project will serve as a collection of all Mayor's who served in cities in Pennsylvania. Still under construction.
This project is for those who are buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia. Mount Moriah Cemetery, situated in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties in Pennsylvania encompasses 380 acres with approximately 200,000 to 300,000 burials. In April 2011, the cemetery was abandoned and the Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, Inc. began working to restore the property, which had been neglected for m...
A place to create an overview of the Import/Export Trade of the Island of Puerto Rico and other trade partners of the West Indies (Domincan Republic, Venezuela, Barbados, Virgin Islands, Hispanola, etc.) and a collection of the movers and shakers and deal makers. Please, feel free to collaborate and join and add pertaining profiles.
Please add Geni profiles of members of the Carpenters' Company to the project, and index the Charter Members listed below. The Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia is the oldest extant craft guild in the United States. Founded in 1724, the Company consists of nearly 200 prominent Philadelphia area architects, building contractors and structural engineers and has had nearly...
In 1809 the Reverend William Cowherd established the Bible Christian Church, in Salford, as a breakaway from the Swedenborgian New Church in King Street, his congregation had to take a vow not to eat meat.Chapels were also established in Manchester at Ancoats and Hulme. The central idea of vegetarianism - that there is a kinship of all nature - stretches back 2500 years to the Greek philosopher...
In the project entitled "Let's build up the Jewish Genealogy Portal" Let's build up the Jewish Genealogy Portal , we have been discussing the possibility of adding Jewish profiles, in mass, by using US census data. There are a number of issues that may have to be overcome to utilize this data in the most efficient way.Since this is a general problem, not at all restricted to Jewish folks, I've ...