The Bullock School Established, 1821. Pennsylvania Military College begins as a Quaker boarding school for boys. Established by John Bullock in Wilmington, Delaware, the school remains at this location until 1862.
Henry Thomason was the Valedictorian of his P.M.A. class of 1879. He was trained as a doctor and served in the US Military. In 1898, he enlisted in the Spanish American War as Major and Surgeon in the Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He served as an...
Baldt Anchor Founded, 1901. The company’s first product is the Baldt Stockless Anchor, patented in 1896. Baldt Anchor becomes one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of anchors and chain.
Theodore Hyatt was born on April 28, 1826 in New York. He graduated in 1849 from the College of New Jersey at Princeton, and became an educator. After founding a boarding and day school for boys called the Educational Institute in Wilmington,...
Alumni; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy
This autobiography chronicles 72 years of Carl A. Shaubel's life. He discusses his childhood in Philadelphia, college day at Pennsylvania Military College, marriage to Ruth Malcomson (Miss America 1924), military service and post war work in the...
The Harvey Grammar School, 1906. Built in 1867 as the city’s first high school, in the early 1900s it is converted to a grammar school for the growing African American population. Most Chester schools remain in a state of de facto segregation...
