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John Staubus Middleton, son of Herbert and Frances (née Staubus) Middleton, was born on March 2, 1955. [1] [2] The Middleton family descends from John Middleton, who, in 1857, founded John Middleton Co., a Philadelphia retail tobacco shop that evolved into a manufacturer and marketer of pipe tobacco and cigars.
Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (born Pierre-Étienne du Ponceau; June 3, 1760 – April 1, 1844) was a French-born American linguist, philosopher and jurist.After emigrating to the Thirteen Colonies in 1777, he served in the American Revolutionary War.
It was commissioned by department store founder Justus C. Strawbridge in 1896, as a gift to the City of Philadelphia. It was cast by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company of New York, and installed in 1899 in front of Philadelphia's Main Post Office, at 9th and Chestnut Streets. [2] Benjamin Franklin was the first United States Postmaster General.
His wife died at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia on August 13, 1928 at age 88. His Recollections were published at Philadelphia in 1890, [7] and an elementary school in Philadelphia is named after him, [18] as is the George W. Childs Recreation Site, in Pike County, Pennsylvania and Childs, Maryland. [19]
Mary Louise Curtis (August 6, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts – January 4, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [1] [2] was the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was the only child of the magazine and newspaper magnate Cyrus H. K. Curtis and Louisa Knapp Curtis, the founder and editor of the Ladies' Home Journal.
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Albert Monroe Greenfield (August 4, 1887 – January 5, 1967) [1] was a real estate broker and developer who built his company into a vast East Coast network of department stores, banks, finance companies, hotels, newspapers, transportation companies, and the Loft Candy Corporation.