Anti-Slavery Broadside. Chester, an important route on the Underground Railroad, plays a significant anti-slavery role in the years preceding the Civil War. Growing anti-slavery sentiment, combined with the Fugitive Slave Act, results in widespread...
Delaware Military Academy Circular, 1860. A slave state with sympathies for the South, Delaware experiences conflicting loyalties during the Civil War. The Delaware Military Academy is almost evenly divided between students from the North and...
Henry C. Robinett, Civil War 1861–1865. Robinett (DMA 1860), pictured here leads an artillery battery that successfully defends an important position at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi. In recognition, his battery is renamed “Battery...
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...
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...
Charles Eliot Hyatt was born in 1851, and graduated from Pennsylvania Military Academy in 1872 with a degree in civil engineering. He taught mathematics at PMA from 1872-1880, and served as vice-president of the school from 1880-1888. On February...
Sun Ship Company Opens, 1916. Sun Ship is founded to produce tankers and freighters for Sun Oil. The company immediately purchases the Robert Wetherill & Co. plant for making tools. During World War II, Sun becomes Chester’s leading employer.
Aberfoyle Manufacturing Company Building, 1927. Since before the Civil War, textile mills play an important role in Chester’s economy. Founded in 1888, Aberfoyle becomes the largest textile mill in the city.
Captain Frank Spang graduated from Pennsylvania Military College in 1939. He distinguished himself as battalion captain of his class, and also as the first four letter athlete in the history of PMC ( he played basketball, golf, tennis, and...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Education and the war; Pennsylvania Military College; Army Specialized Training Program (U.S.)
On pages 199; 209-211, DelVecchio describes the ASTP and ASTRP Programs. DelVecchio, V. (1997). Beneath the Dome - The Story of Pennsylvania Military College. Santa Barbara, CA.
