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Army. Years of service. 1951-1954 [2] [3] Rank. Sergeant Major. Clifford Evans DeBaptiste (born May 19, 1924) is an American politician and funeral director who served as mayor of West Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1994 to 2002. A Republican at the time, he was the borough's first black mayor. [4] He is often credited for beginning the ...
West Chester University. West Chester University (also known as West Chester, WCU, or WCUPA, and officially as West Chester University of Pennsylvania) is a public research university in and around West Chester, Pennsylvania. [5] The university is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and classified among "R2: Doctoral ...
West Chester photographed in 2006. The history of West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, began in 1762, when Phineas Eachus and Chest Weaterson were issued a license to build a tavern. The borough was incorporated in 1799. One of the nation's first railroads was built in West Chester in 1832, and a prominent courthouse, designed by Thomas U ...
Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. [5] It is located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area (also known as the Delaware Valley) on the western bank of the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. The population of Chester was 32,605 at the 2020 census.
west-chester.com. West Chester is a borough and the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. [5] Located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the borough had a population of 18,461 at the 2010 census. [6] West Chester is the mailing address for most of its neighboring townships.
Herman Hutt (1872–1952), Pennsylvania state representative and chief burgess of West Chester. Francis James (1799–1886), U.S. Congressman and chief burgess of West Chester. William Levis James (1833–1903), Union Army brevet Brigadier General. Walter T. Kerwin Jr. (1917–2008), United States Army four-star general.
William O. Wagstaff III, a candidate for Westchester County district attorney, stands by the statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King by the Richard Daronco Westchester County Courthouse on April 23 ...
72001111 [ 1] Added to NRHP. November 27, 1972. First Presbyterian Church of West Chester is a historic Presbyterian church located at 130 W. Miner Street in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was designed in 1832 by Thomas U. Walter, who later became the fourth Architect of the Capitol. The church is a stuccoed stone building ...