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Joseph Hugg Kennard: b. Apr. 24, 1798, near Haddonfield, N.J.; d. June 24, 1866, Phila., Pa.; born of Quaker parents; “went to Wilmington in Delaware, yet a youth, to engage in business;” here he atte … read more

Horatio Gates Jones, Jr.*: b. Jan. 19, 1822, Roxborough, Pa.; d. Mar. 13, 1893, Roxborough, Pa.; . . . though a lawyer by profession, he became an eminent nineteenth-century historian of the Philadelp … read more

Edward Armstrong Ince, M.D.: b. Dec. 10, 1847, Mountmellick, Ireland; d. May 18, 1920, Detroit, Mich.; immigrated to America in 1870; became a naturalized citizen in 1880; grad. Union Theological Semi … read more

Andrew Jackson Hay: b. Apr. 13, 1825, Warwick, Bucks Co., Pa.; d. Apr. 14, 1902, Germantown, Pa.; he was taught the trade of blacksmith at Hatborough, Pa.; “He worked his way to Lewisburg on a canal b … read more

Benjamin Griffith: b. Oct. 13, 1821, Juniata County, Pa.; d. Oct. 24, 1893, Upland, Pa.; . . . appointed by the Maryland Baptist Union Association as a missionary to Cumberland, Md., where he entered … read more