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Rachel H. Shoemaker (1838–1915), founder of the National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia. [17] Matthew Simpson (1811–1884), notable Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, delivered eulogy at funeral of Abraham Lincoln; Charles Emory Smith (1842–1908), U.S. Minister to Russia 1890–1891, U.S. Postmaster General 1898-1902
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Givnish was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He graduated from Princeton University with a BA in mathematics in 1973 and received his Ph.D. in biology there in 1976. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Leaf form in relation to environment: A theoretical study. [2]
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2017.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
The bodies were moved to two other cemeteries owned by the Odd Fellows – Mount Peace Cemetery in Philadelphia and Lawnview Memorial Park in Rockledge, Pennsylvania. [7] However, in 2013, workers unearthed 28 graves and remains that were not moved and were still under the playground of the William Dick school built in 1954.
Ivy Hill Cemetery is a public cemetery and crematorium [1] located at 1201 Easton Road in the Cedarbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chartered in 1867, it is 80 acres in size and was originally named the Germantown and Chestnut Hill Cemetery. It was renamed Ivy Hill Cemetery in June 1871. [2]
The nearly 150-year-old university, a longtime home for artists of all kinds, shut down a week later on June 7, leaving its more than 1,000 students and hundreds of faculty and staff confused and ...
The Jewish Exponent has been published continuously since April 15, 1887. [2] [3] [4] A predecessor newspaper, The Jewish Record, had been published since 1875.[3]The paper was founded by 43 prominent Philadelphians—among them Henry Samuel Morais—who pledged that it would be "devoted to the interests of the Jewish people."