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99 unusual facts about Pennsylvania


Albert Kingsbury

2 Kingsbury died in 1943, and was buried at the Quaker Cemetery, Spring Mills, Pennsylvania.

Alec Devon Kreider

Alec Devon Kreider (born February 4, 1991) is a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, criminal who was convicted for the three murders of a Manheim Township family on May 12, 2007.

Allentown Cardinals

The Cardinals played at Fairview Field until 1948, when they moved into the new Breadon Field, a steel and concrete stadium that seated 5,000 fans, which was located just north of the city in Whitehall Township.

Allison White

White was born in Pine Township, near Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania.

Apalachicola Regional Airport

He was survived by his wife Donna, of Pensacola, Florida, and his mother, Mrs. Katherine Neale, of Avalon, Pennsylvania.

Assemblies of Yahweh

The Assemblies of Yahweh is a nonprofit religious organization with its international headquarters in Bethel, Pennsylvania.

AWeber

Previous headquarters include Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, Newtown, Pennsylvania, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

B.J. Phillips

Instead of Brown's photo and byline, those of Phillips ran in at least the edition delivered to suburban Delaware County, PA, while Brown's photo and byline ran properly in at least the edition delivered to suburban Montgomery County, PA.

Baltimore County Public Library

:Richard D. Minnich, previously director of the Easton, Pennsylvania, library, becomes first county librarian to direct the system.

Battle of Hanover

Stuart was forced to continue north and east to get around the Union cavalry, further delaying his attempt to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army, which was then concentrating at Cashtown Gap west of Gettysburg.

Board track racing

Driver fatalities continued to mount on board tracks into the 1920s, and included four Indianapolis 500 winners, three of which occurred at the Altoona track (another Pillsbury design) in Tipton, Pennsylvania, and three in the same years in which the driver won at Indianapolis.

Burgettstown, Pennsylvania

Joffre, Bulger, Cherry Valley, Atlasburg, Slovan, Langeloth, Eldersville, Cross Creek, Studa.

Cadwalader Morris

After the war he had an iron furnace for several years at Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia.

Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

When Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) pushed a line into the Lehigh Valley through (left bank) East Mauch Chunk and (right bank, shared with the LH&S) Packerton, the LC&N management suddenly got motivated to have LH&S finish the connecting road through the Lehigh River Gorge.

Chapin Hall

He moved to Pine Grove (now Russell), Warren County, Pennsylvania, about 1841 and engaged in the lumber business and mercantile pursuits.

Charles Panati

As a radiation health physicist, Panati was deeply concerned about the accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1979.

Charles Reizenstein Company

The Reizenstein family business was used as a means for philanthropic work in Allegheny and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Cheswick, Pennsylvania

Cheswick is bordered by Acmetonia in Harmar Township on the west, by Springdale Township on the north, by Springdale Borough on the east, and by Plum Borough on the south (across the Allegheny River).

Chris Salvatore

Growing up in the small town of Richboro, Pennsylvania, he spent his days singing, acting, and performing for his family.

Compass Inn

Compass Inn is a historic inn and tavern located in Laughlintown, Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Cornell High School

Cornell High School is a public high school located in the borough of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County in the state of Pennsylvania.

Crown Metal Products

Ken's son, Bert Williams, continued to support the Crown locomotives, providing replacement parts and service through his company, Castle Ridge Products of Claysville, Pennsylvania, until 2004, when the necessary tooling and machinery was donated to the Tweetsie Railroad, who currently handles the restoration and service of the engines.

David Glantz

Upon his return to the United States in 1979, he became chief of research at the Army’s newly formed Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1979 to 1983 and then Director of Soviet Army Operations at the Center for Land Warfare, U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1986.

Delanson, New York

The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was organized and was expanded by buying or leasing railroads from Rouses Point, New York to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and the canal from Honesdale, Pennsylvania to Rondout, New York.

Dennis Hollinger

Hollinger previously held academic appointments at Evangelical Theological Seminary in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana, and Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York.

Doug West

After the NBA, West spent two years coaching at a high school in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and two years as an athletic director at a high school in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Dutch Wonderland

They also operate Wonderland Mini-Golf, and Old Mill Stream Campground at the same location and the Gift Shop at Kitchen Kettle Village, in nearby Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

Edmond Hamilton

Something of a child prodigy, he graduated from high school and started college (Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania) at the age of 14, but washed out at 17.

Farmers Valley, Pennsylvania

Farmers Valley is an unincorporated community in Keating Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, between Coryville and Smethport.

Foundation for New Era Philanthropy

Using the swelling funds from these churches, Bennett expanded further, establishing offices in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Frederick Christian Schaeffer

In the same year he became pastor of the Lutheran congregation at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained three years.

Freshpet

In 2013, Freshpet opened a new manufacturing facility, the Freshpet Kitchens, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Frick Fine Arts Building

She responded by creating a new venture, The Frick Art Museum, on the property of her ancestral home, Clayton, a few miles east in Pittsburgh's Point Breeze neighborhood.

Gary M. Heidnik

Shortly after Maxine's birth, Heidnik was arrested for the kidnapping and rape of Anjeanette's sister Alberta, who had been living in an institution for the mentally disabled in Penn Township.

George N. H. Peters

George Nathaniel Henry Peters was born on November 30, 1825 in New Berlin, Pennsylvania to Isaac Cyrus Peters and Magdalene Miller.

Giant Eagle

The third Market District store opened on November 5, 2009, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Robinson Township.

In 2012, Giant Eagle opened a new low-cost supermarket concept called Good Cents, located in Ross Township, Pennsylvania.

Griffith Hughes

For example, there were and are several locations named Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Harry Haenigsen

In 1931, Haenigsen first moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania with his wife Bobby, but they stayed there only briefly.

Helen Twelvetrees

On February 13, 1958, Twelvetrees was found unconscious on the floor of her living room at her home in Middletown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Harrisburg.

Irv Kosloff

Isadore "Irv" S. Kosloff (1912, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – February 1995, Merion, Pennsylvania) was an American businessman and sportsman.

James Ashbrook Perkins

James Ashbrook Perkins has been a Professor of English, at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania since 1973.

James Chester Bradley

James Chester Bradley (1884, West Chester, PA - 1975, Ithaca, NY) an American entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

John G. Gertsch

John G. Gertsch went to high school in Sheffield Area Middle/Senior High School (SAMSHS) in Sheffield, Pennsylvania.

John M. Snowden

Snowden served terms as Allegheny County Recorder and Treasurer before being elected mayor of Pittsburgh in 1825.

Jonathan Greenleaf Eveleth

Bissell continued to considerably expand his and the New York investors' land in the Titusville region, in Franklin and Petroleum Center, PA.

Joshua Richmond

Richmond resides in Hillsgrove, Pennsylvania, and attended Troy State University.

Kathy Rapp

She volunteered for the Parent Education Network in York, Pennsylvania.

Ken Grundt

Following his playing career, Grundt has worked as senior instructor at Frozen Ropes, a baseball instructional center located at Dickson City, Pennsylvania.

Kenneth B. Pyle

Kenneth B. Pyle (born April 20, 1936 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) is a Japan historian and professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus.

Kobzarska Sich

Kobzarska Sich is held every August at All Saints Camp in Emlenton, Pennsylvania.

Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad

Beginning in Scranton in Lackawanna County, the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg line followed the west shore of the Lackawanna River through the Wyoming Valley, passing through Old Forge on the way to Duryea in Luzerne County.

Laura de Force Gordon

Laura de Force Gordon (née Laura de Force; August 17, 1838, North East, Pennsylvania – April 5, 1907, Lodi, California) was an American lawyer, editor, and a prominent campaigner for women’s rights in the American West.

M1917 Enfield

A third manufacturer, Eddystone Arsenal - a subsidiary of Remington - was tooled up at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania.

In addition to Remington's production at Ilion, New York and Eddystone, Pennsylvania, Winchester produced the rifle at their New Haven, Connecticut plant, a combined total more than twice the 1903's production, and was the unofficial service rifle.

Mark R. Showalter

Showalter was born in Abington, Pennsylvania.

Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway

The P2 ("East Busway Short") operates only between Wilkinsburg and Downtown and also makes a loop through Downtown.

Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania

The Mayor of Scranton is the chief executive of the government of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Scranton.

Mike Reese

Reese was born in Mount Pleasant Township and graduated from Mount Pleasant Area High School.

Nellie Peters Black

Black's father, Richard Peters, moved from Pennsylvania to Georgia to survey the railroads, as he worked as a civil engineer.

Ner Middleswarth

He lost a great deal of his wealth, however, on a failed iron business called "Beaver Furnace" near Paxtonville, Pennsylvania.

New Galilee

The New Galilee, Pennsylvania, a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States

Olympic Steel

The following year, Olympic entered the machining business by purchasing the assets of JNT Machining and opening a new facility in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Paoli, Oklahoma

It was named after Paoli, an unincorporated community outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where most of the railroad workers that basically built the town were from.

Pennsylvania State Treasurer election, 2004

Jean Craige Pepper, an Erie financial executive, was the only Republican who filed.

Peter Staley

His father was a plant manager for Procter & Gamble at the time, and his family moved throughout the US until he was eight years old, when his family moved to Berwyn, Pennsylvania after his father was hired to run the PQ Corporation, based in Philadelphia.

Phil Margera

Margera was born in Concordville, Pennsylvania on July 13, 1957, where he was raised, as the second of seven children of Phillip and Darlene Margera (née Stauffer; October 13, 1939 - June 16, 2007).

Philip Erpff House

Philip Erpff House is a historic home located at Schaefferstown, in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

The railroad continued northwest along the left downstream bank of the Ohio to the vicinity of Beaver, Pennsylvania, where it crossed the river on the Beaver Bridge.

Potato Creek

Potato Creek joins the Allegheny River approximately 1.7 miles (2.7 km) downstream of the community of Coryville.

PRR D16

In 1960, the 1223 was leased and transferred to the Strasburg Rail Road, a tourist line in the Amish hamlet of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, where it was returned to operating condition.

Queen Alliquippa

After the British defeat at the Battle of the Great Meadows and the evacuation of Fort Necessity, Alliquippa moved her band to the Aughwick Valley of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania for safety.

Richard Bloomingdale

He has lectured on the topic of "workforce development" at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Robins Air Force Base

When the U.S. Air Force closed down its maintenance depots at the former Brookley AFB in Mobile, Alabama and the former Olmsted AFB in Middleton Township, Pennsylvania, Robins AFB assumed the workload of these depots.

Roy Wells

Roy J. Wells is a prominent lobbyist in Pennsylvania, working as President and Managing Director of Triad Strategies, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based lobbying firm.

Saint Francis Red Flash

The Saint Francis Red Flash are the 22 sports teams representing Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, track and field, and volleyball; women's-only bowling, field hockey, lacrosse, softball, and swimming; and men's-only football.

Sam Felton

Felton declined the offer to return to his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania and pursue a career in business.

Samuel Howell Ashbridge

Samuel Howell Ashbridge (December 5, 1848 in Philadelphia – March 1, 1906) was the mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from April 3, 1899 to April 5, 1903.

Sarah Tyson Rorer

She was born at Richboro, Pa., daughter of Charles Tyson Heston, a pharmacist, and Elizabeth Sagers.

Schnecksville, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Route 873 begins at PA 309 in Schnecksville and exits the area to the north towards Neffs.

Schuylkill Canal Association

The area extends along the canal and left bank of the Schuylkill River, from Mont Clare past Port Providence.

Sideling Hill

The Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 76) crosses Sideling Hill east of Breezewood, Pennsylvania, bypassing the two-lane Sideling Hill tunnel and the nearby Rays Hill tunnel that were formerly used by the Turnpike.

Skylon Tower

Costing $7 million at the time of its construction, the Skylon Tower was owned by a private partnership called Niagara International Centre, which was financed by the The Hershey Company shareholdings of Charles Richard Reese, former co-owner of the H. B. Reese Candy Company of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Sons of the Prophet

Brothers Joseph Douaihy (29 years old) and Charles Douaihy (18 years old), who live in a run-down area of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, are left alone after their father dies of a heart attack two weeks after a car accident.

Steve Pulcinella

Pulcinella was born and raised in Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania where he began strength training at his high school, Ridley High School in Folsom, with his cousin, now-bodybuilder Dave Pulcinella.

Texas County, Oklahoma

Texas County is one of four counties in the United States to border the state with which it shares its name (the other three are Nevada County, California, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Ohio County, West Virginia).

The Fabulous Dorseys

The Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 fictionalized biographical film which tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.

Timothy Reifsnyder

Timothy Reifsnyder (born 7 February 1986 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania) is an American actor.

Tobias Segal

Segal was born and raised in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and has been active in the theatre community in Philadelphia.

United Mine Workers

the Morewood massacre - April 3, 1891, in Morewood, Pennsylvania, where a crowd of mostly immigrant strikers were fired on by deputized members of the 10th Regiment of the National Guard.

US Army Medical Materiel Center – Southwest Asia

USAMMC-SWA was established as a provisional unit just before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, manned by the Soldiers assigned to the 6th Medical Logistics Management Center (6MLMC) from Fort Detrick, Maryland, the 388th Medical Battalion (Logistics) from Hays, Kansas and the 424th Medical Battalion (Logistics) from Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

VF Corporation

An outlet mall located in Vanity Fair's old manufacturing mills in Wyomissing, just outside Reading, Pennsylvania.

Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States

The Westminster Presbyterian Church in the United States (WPCUS) is a small Presbyterian denomination which was constituted in January 2006 in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.

William Henry Wahl

He entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1863 at the age of 15, and graduated from there in 1867.

William P. Greene, Jr.

During his career as a Judge Advocate, he completed his military education at the Basic, Advanced, and Military Judges' courses at The Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

William R. Furlong

William Rea Furlong was born on May 26, 1881 in the town of Allenport, Pennsylvania as a son of William Allen Furlong and Ethel Grant Furlong.

William Skelly

After completing the business course, he worked with his father hauling oil well supplies to oil fields in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

WITF-TV

In 2007, it moved to a purpose-built facility in Swatara Township.

WPPX-TV

WPPX maintains offices located on Main Street in Bala Cynwyd, and its transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.


1996 Little League World Series

The 1996 Little League World Series took place between August 19 and August 24 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Arthur Bates

Arthur Laban Bates (1859–1934), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

Ben Parker

Ben L. Parker (1913–2003), former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Other multi-state organizations include CareFirst in the Mid-Atlantic, The Regence Group in the Pacific Northwest, and Highmark which serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.

Branchburg, New Jersey

Also within driving distance are Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE, formerly Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton International Airport) near Allentown, Pennsylvania, John F. Kennedy International Airport and La Guardia Airport in New York, as well as the Trenton-Mercer Airport near Trenton and Princeton in Mercer County.

CBNA

Community Bank, N.A., a bank servicing Upstate New York and Northeastern Pennsylvania

Center for Bio-Ethical Reform

Its slogan is "abortion represents an evil so inexpressible that words fail us when attempting to describe its horror. Until abortion is seen, it will never be understood." The Executive Director of the CBR is Gregg Cunningham, a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who has also held a number of other government positions.

Cerussite

Finely crystallized specimens have been obtained from the Friedrichssegen mine in Lahnstein near Nassau, Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony, Mies in Bohemia, Phoenixville in Pennsylvania, Broken Hill, New South Wales; and several other localities.

Charles Pitman

Charles Wesley Pitman (died 1871), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

CKHS

Crozer-Keystone Health System, based in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States

Erik Arneson

Erik Arneson is a prominent political staffer in Pennsylvania, serving as Chief of Staff for former Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Chip Brightbill and as Communications and Policy Director for current Majority Leader Dominic F. Pileggi.

Errett

Russell Errett (1817–1891), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Federal Prison Camp, Duluth

Hecker has since been transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto, a low-security facility in Pennsylvania with an adjacent minimum-security satellite prison camp.

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

Flyer II

Ravine Flyer II, a hybrid wooden roller coaster located at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

General Textile Mills

For historians researching the U.S. textile industry and Northeastern Pennsylvania and Carbondale, Pennsylvania industrialization, this is a name of interest.

George K. Brady

He was the son of Jasper Ewing Brady, a lawyer who later served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and whose uncles included noted Indian fighters Samuel Brady and Hugh Brady.

Grape pie

Vineyards that grow the grape, which was developed in the U.S., stretch from Western New York across Pennsylvania and into Ohio, forming a "narrow 100-mile-long strip" which includes Westfield, New York (known as "Concord grape juice capital of the world"), on the southern Lake Erie shore.

Harris Tower

Harris Switch Tower, an interlocking tower in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Henry Auchey

Henry B. Auchy (1861–1922) was a businessman famous for, along with Chester Albright, creating the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (later renamed Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1904.

Hi-Q

Kimberly-Clark Hi-Q is a U.S. high school academic quiz competition originating in Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Hybrid Ice

Hybrid Ice was the first local (Pennsylvania based) rock band to play at the Bloomsburg Fair in 1984.

Israel Jacobs

Jaobs was born near the Perkiomen Creek in Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

James Chase

James Mitchell Chase (1891–1945), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

James Quigley

James M. Quigley (1918-2011), United States Representative from Pennsylvania

Jesse White

Jesse J. White, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

KCAC

Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, a convention and athletic center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Kudzu in the United States

Kudzu was intentionally introduced to North America by the Soil Erosion Service and Civilian Conservation Corp in 1876 for the purpose of controlling soil erosion in Pennsylvania.

Marion Cameron Gray

In 1924 she travelled to the United States under the assistance of both a British graduates scholarship and a Carnegie scholarship to attend Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania from where she gained a Ph.D. under the supervision of Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler.

Minsi

Mount Minsi, a hill on the Pennsylvania side of Delaware Water Gap

N43

Braden Airpark in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States (FAA code)

Out of This Furnace

The novel is set in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania along the Monongahela River.

PCCS

Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, a public virtual charter school based out of Midland, Pennsylvania, USA

Pearl S. Buck House

Green Hills Farm, the Bucks County, Pennsylvania location where Pearl S. Buck lived for 40 years

Pennsylvania Navy

The Pennsylvania State Navy was responsible for defense of the river when Philadelphia was occupied by British General Sir William Howe, and the Royal Navy wanted to resupply Howe's army.

Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district

Many of Allegheny County's southern suburbs of Pittsburgh are located in the district, which range from traditional wealth areas such as Mount Lebanon and Upper St. Clair, middle class communities such as Bethel Park, Brentwood & Scott Township, and working class labor towns such as Elizabeth.

Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux finds the former high-school basketball star, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, working a dead-end job (as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant) and approaching middle age in the downtrodden and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania, the place of his birth.

René Peña

René de Jesus Peña Gonzalez is a Cuban artist specializing in photography, and exposed his pictures in different exhibitions in Cuba (Havana), Spain and in the US (Seattle, Pennsylvania, New-York).

Reuben A. Holden III

In 1910, at the age of 20, Holden won the National Intercollegiate title for Yale, defeating R. Thayer of Pennsylvania in the first round, Cullen Thomas of Princeton in the second, S. F. Raleigh of Princeton in semis and Arthur Sweetser of Harvard in the final.

Richard Thornburg

Dick Thornburgh (spelled with another "h"), a former Pennsylvania Governor and US Attorney General

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

The bridging sequences show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania).

U.S. Route 522

US 522 passes through the Ridge and Valley Province of the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania, connecting Hancock, Maryland on the Potomac River with McConnellsburg, Mount Union, Lewistown, Middleburg, and Selinsgrove on the Susquehanna River.

Violence Against Women Act

However, several of them, including Steve King (R-Iowa), Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), Tim Walberg (R-Michigan), Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Keith Rothfus (R-Pennsylvania), and Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania), later claimed to have voted in favor of the act.

West Concord, Minnesota

The early settlers of the area were from New England, New York or Pennsylvania and West Concord, and well as Concord Township which surrounds it, were named after Concord, New Hampshire.

William Findley

At one point, Constitutional Convention delegate James Wilson and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Thomas McKean disputed one of Findley's statements about jury trials in Sweden; Findley returned two days later with William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and demonstrated that his reference had been correct.

William Kirkpatrick

William Huntington Kirkpatrick (1885–1970), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

William Millward

Millward was born in the old district of Northern Liberties in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Winthrop Welles Ketcham

Ketcham was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress from Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district, and served from 1873 until his resignation in 1876.