Delaware County PA

Biography of Frederick S. Kohler, M. D.

The wise system of industrial economics which has been brought to bear in the development of Nampa has challenged uniform admiration, for while there has been steady advancement in material lines there has been an entire absence of that inflation of values and that erratic “booming” which have in the past proved the eventual death knell to many of the localities in the west, where “mushroom towns” have one day smiled forth with “all modern improvements” and practically on the next have been shorn of their glories and of their possibilities of stable prosperity until the existing order of things … Read more

Delaware County, Pennsylvania Census Records

1790 Delaware County, Pennsylvania Census Records Free 1790 Census Form for your Research Hosted at Ancestry.com – Ancestry Free Trial  Hosted at USGenWeb Census Project Surname Index A-L Surname Index M-Z Notes Ashton Bethel Birmingham Chester Concord Darby Edgemont Haverford Lower Chichester Lower Providence Marple Middletown Newtown Radnor Ridley Springfield Thornbury Tinicum Upper Chichester Upper Darby Upper Providence Hosted at Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives Township Census Records Hosted at Ridley Township History First Census of Ridley Township Hosted at Census Guide 1800 U.S. Census Guide 1800 Delaware County, Pennsylvania Census Records Free 1800 Census Form for your Research Hosted at Ancestry.com … Read more

Biography of Lewis Fleischner

Fleischner, Lewis, one of the leading merchants of Portland was born in the village of Vogelgesang, Bohemia, in 1829. He was educated in his native village and at Tissan a small town near his home. At the age of fifteen years he came to America, and for a short time remained in New York City. He then went to Philadelphia, where he was employed for five years by a dealer in horses and cattle. At the end of this period, in 1849, he came to Drakeville, Davis County, Iowa, and for three years was engaged in merchandising. In 1852 he … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Samuel Wright

Samuel Wright, Charleston; was born in Delaware Co., Penn., Feb. 29, 1808; when he was 9 years of age, he removed with his parents to Washington Co., in the same State, where he learned the trade of a carpenter and builder, and afterward taught school for seven years. He was married Aug. 20, 1829, to Miss Ruth Gordon, of Washington Co., Penn., and has four children living – William G. (of Charleston), Maria B. (wife of Dr. A. K. Spears, of Charleston), Matilda R. (Mrs. W. S. Minton, of Charleston), and Samuel H. (Corresponding Secretary of the National Surgical Institute, … Read more

Delaware County, Pennsylvania Cemetery Records

Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Cemeteries hosted at Delaware County Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives Arlington Cemetery Bethesda Cemetery Bethlehem United Methodist Cemetery Brandywine Baptist Cemetery Calvary Cemetery Calvary Episcopal Cemetery Chester Rural Cemetery Christ Episcopal Church – Memorial Gardens Christ Church Cemetery Church of the Redeemer Episcopal – Columbarium Collenbrook United Church Memorial Garden Concord Friends Meeting Burial Ground Cumberland Cemetery Darby Friends Burial Ground Eastlawn Cemetery Eden Cemetery Edgewood Memorial Park Elam Methodist Cemetery Fernwood Cemetery First Baptist Church … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Edward Graham Hayes

(VII) Edward Graham Hayes, son of Dr. Joseph Byron (2) Hayes, was born July 12, 1862. He was a student in the old Canandaigua Academy, the Pennsylvania Military Academy, Chester, Pennsylvania, and Union College (class of 1886), Schenectady, New York. He is a. member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity. After leaving college he spent a number of years in Colorado in the cattle business, and then spent some time abroad. In 1900 he married Elizabeth McGill, of Jamestown, New York, and in 1903 returned to Canandaigua, where he has since made his home. Mr. Hayes was-occupied in private business affairs … Read more