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George and Elizabeth Bryan
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In Memory of George Bryan Who died January 29th 1791 aged 60 years. Mr. Bryan was among - the - - - active and - - of the to - at - the revolutionary - - member of the - of Pennsylvania and of the Congress in New York in 1765 and as a - he was consp- - - apparition to the stamp act and other - British tyranny he as especially (?) the - domestic slavery. The emancipation(?) of the - of colony engaged - foolings of his heart - -of his mind and the act of Asseb- - the foundation their - - - pen he filled several important offices during - revolutionary contest and for the last 11 years of his life he was one of the Judges of the supreme court - his private deportment he was example of a Christian in principal and practice. The earthly remains also of Elizabeth Bryan his wife are under this stone. She died January 5th, 1799 aged 60 years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George Bryan (1731-1791) * Trustee 1779-1791 * Treasurer of the Board of Trustees 1779-1788 # Merchant # Active Presbyterian # Pennsylvania Lieutenant-Governor # Revolutionary # Opposed slavery, a bicameral legislature and a single executive George Bryan was born in Dublin, Ireland, where he spent his first twenty years. In 1752 he came to Philadelphia to take his place in a trading partnership arranged by his father with Philadelphia merchant James Wallace. Although the partnership did not last long, Bryan went on to be quite successful as a merchant, as an importer and exporter and in the retail business. In 1757 he married Elizabeth Smith; they had a family of ten children. As an active Presbyterian, Bryan in the late 1750s and early 1760s played a role in trying to hold together two factions that had emerged during the Great Awakening. This struggle led him into provincial politics where he fought the proprietors and the strong Quaker faction that sought to make Pennsylvania a royal colony. When the Stamp Act was pased in 1765, Bryan's attention turned from provincial issues to ones of empire. He took a role in resisting the oppressive act by joining other Philadelphia merchants in signing the Non-Importation agreement to resist the Stamp act and Townshend Duties. This action likely contributed to his bankruptcy in 1771. Bad health kept Bryan out of the public light during the early 1770s, but after Pennsylvania drafted and adopted a new state constitution in 1776, he became an advocate of the radical unicameral government. In the new government, Bryan served from 1777-1779 as Vice-President of the Supreme Executive Council (the equivalent of lieutenant-governor). During this period, he focused much of his effort on mobilizing the state's resources to combat Tory and Indian harrassment of settlers on the frontier, most of whom were Presbyterian. He also pushed for emancipation of all slaves in Pennsylvania, which subsequently served as a model for gradual emancipation in all the northern colonies. He felt that in a new nation devoted to personal freedoms, slavery was a moral disgrace. This is his most enduring legacy. In the later 1780s he fought earnestly against the federal constitution and a new state constitution advocating a bicameral legislature and a single executive. He lost both these fights, but continued to press for small, uncomplicated government that was directly responsible and responsive to the people. Although many of his political aims were not realized, Bryan played a useful and important part in shaping the United States and Pennsylvania. Bryan was just ending his term as Vice-President of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council when the College of Philadelphia was placed under the jursidiction of the trustees of the University of the State of Pennsylvania. He may have initially participated on this board of trustees in an ex officio capacity, but after he stepped down from the Supreme Executive Council, Bryan was appointed a trustee of the University of the State of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pennsylvania) in 1779 and served until his death in 1791. He acted as treasurer of this board from 1779 to 1788. www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/people/bryan_...


Commodore Isaac Hull
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United States Naval Officer 09 March 1773 - 13 February 1843 A defender of American Freedom and pioneer of a new nation. He lifted the spirits of an entire nation by defeating the British on the high seas, while commanding USS CONSTITUTION Old Ironsides in battle with HMS Guerriare on 19 August 1812. He is an American hero who dedicated his life to his country. Commodore Isaac Hull, USN, (1773-1843) Isaac Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut, on 9 March 1773. Early in life he joined his father, a mariner, on local voyages and longer trips to the West Indies. During the mid-1790s Hull commanded several merchant vessels, losing some to French privateers. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the new United States Navy in March 1798 and distinguished himself during the next two years while serving on board the frigate Constitution in the undeclared war with France. When troubles with the Barbary powers heated up in 1802 he went to the Mediterranean as First Lieutenant of the frigate Adams. Hull later commanded the schooner Enterprise and the brig Argus, receiving promotion to the rank of Master Commandant in 1804 and to Captain in 1806. During the next few years he supervised the construction of gunboats and in 1809 and 1810 was successively given command of the frigates, Chesapeake, President and Constitution. Captain Hull's time on Constitution was eventful. He took the ship on a European cruise in 1811-12, returning home before the War of 1812 broke out between the United States and Great Britain. An enemy squadron closely pursued his ship off the East Coast in July, but Hull skillfully evaded them. On 19 August 1812, Constitution encountered the British frigate Guerriere at sea and pounded her to a wreck in an action that electrified the Nation and demonstrated that the small U.S. Navy was a worthy and dangerous opponent for Britain's otherwise overwhelming maritime might. Isaac Hull commanded the Portsmouth Navy Yard at Kittery, Maine, for the rest of the War of 1812, then briefly served on the Board of Navy Commissioners in Washington before taking over leadership of the Boston Navy Yard. During 1823-1827 he commanded the U.S. squadron operating along South America's Pacific coast. Commodore Hull's next assignment, as Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, ran from 1829 until 1835. Between 1839 and 1841 he commanded the Mediterranean Squadron. Rendered unfit for further service by age and ill health, he spend the next two years on leave. Commodore Isaac Hull died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 13 February 1843. The U.S. Navy has named five ships in honor of Isaac Hull, including: USS Commodore Hull (1862-1865); USS Hull (Destroyer # 6); USS Hull (DD-330); USS Hull (DD-350); and USS Hull (DD-945). www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-h/i-hull.htm www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h48000/h48939k.jpg


Major Charles F Taggart
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Major 2nd Penn Calvary Died Oct 24th, 1863 From wounds received at Bealeton Station VA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The regiment bivouacked at Bealton, and on the 13th retired to Catlett's. The race for Bristoe Station now became exciting, and before the command reached the Centreville Road, the battle opened and raged furiously until evening. Many prisoners were taken and the enemy's advance effectually checked. The main body of the army was now entrenched on the heights of Centreville, a position in too close proximity to the defences of Washington to allow the enemy to gain its rear. On the 19th, the regiment moved to Fairfax Station, and was assigned to the Second Brigade,2 Second Division, Cavalry Corps. The movement towards the Rappahannock and Mine Run began on the 21st, and passing through Thoroughfare Gap the command moved to Warrenton, where on the 22d the regiment was detailed to picket the Rappahannock from Kelly's, to Beverly Ford. Approaching the railroad the enemy was discovered engaged in destroying the track. An attack was immediately made, the first battalion in advance, in which Major Taggart was mortally wounded while leading the charge. The regiment moved forward and a brisk fight ensued, which was continued until late in the evening. The enemy's cavalry under Fitz Hugh Lee, with a regiment of infantry and a section of artillery, was driven in confusion from Bealton to the heights around Rappahannock Station. The regiment lost five wounded and two captured. www.pa-roots.com/~pacw/cavalry/2dcav/2ndcavorg.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He was part of the Class of 1852 receive from the University of Pennsylvania www.archives.upenn.edu/primdocs/upm/upm7100/1852record.pd... see handwritten back ground of him at the above webpage.


Thomas M Hall
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Thomas M. Hall Lieutenant Colonel 121 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Civil War June 2 1835 - Nov 6 1864 Hero of the Battle of Fredericksburg Other Names: Marye’s Heights Location: Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg Campaign: Fredericksburg Campaign (November-December 1862) Date(s): December 11-15, 1862 Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside [US]; Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS] Forces Engaged: 172,504 total (US 100,007; CS 72,497) Estimated Casualties: 17,929 total (US 13,353; CS 4,576) Description: On November 14, Burnside, now in command of the Army of the Potomac, sent a corps to occupy the vicinity of Falmouth near Fredericksburg. The rest of the army soon followed. Lee reacted by entrenching his army on the heights behind the town. On December 11, Union engineers laid five pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock under fire. On the 12th, the Federal army crossed over, and on December 13, Burnside mounted a series of futile frontal assaults on Prospect Hill and Marye’s Heights that resulted in staggering casualties. Meade’s division, on the Union left flank, briefly penetrated Jackson’s line but was driven back by a counterattack. Union generals C. Feger Jackson and George Bayard, and Confederate generals Thomas R.R. Cobb and Maxey Gregg were killed. On December 15, Burnside called off the offensive and recrossed the river, ending the campaign. Burnside initiated a new offensive in January 1863, which quickly bogged down in the winter mud. The abortive “Mud March” and other failures led to Burnside’s replacement by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker in January 1863. Result(s): Confederate victory www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va028.htm


Bok
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Edward William Bok, American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born on October 9, 1863, in Den Helder, The Netherlands. At the age of six, he immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, USA, and became an office boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1876. In 1882, he began work with Henry Holt and Company, and then, in 1884, he became involved with Charles Scribner's Sons, where he eventually became advertising manager. From 1884 until 1887, Bok was the editor of The Brooklyn Magazine, and in 1886, he founded The Bok Syndicate Press. After moving to Philadelphia in 1889, he obtained the editorship of Ladies Home Journal, published by Cyrus Curtis, and in 1896 married Curtis' daughter Mary L. Curtis. [1] During his editorship, the journal became the first magazine in the world to have 1 million subscribers. In 1919, after 30 years at the journal, he retired. Bok is credited with coining the word living room to replace the American parlor. His autobiography, The Americanization of Edward Bok, won the Gold Medal of the Academy of Political and Social Science and the Pulitzer Prize for best autobiography. Bok died in 1930. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_W._Bok Thanks to Wystan for the information on him.


Twiggs
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This monument Erected by citizens of Philadelphia who cherished his virtues marks the resting place of the mortal remains of Major Levi Twiggs, U.S.M [United States Marine] who fell leading his command to the assault at the storming of Chapultepec in Mexico on the 13th day of September A.D 1847 for some info on Major Twiggs. books.google.com/books?id=gLr9tA1xMJgC&pg=PA215&l... Priscilla Decatur Twiggs Born Jan 26, 1802 Died Jan 28, 1890 note: The efforts of the U.S. Marines in this battle and subsequent occupation of Mexico City are memorialized by the opening lyrics to Marines' hymn. From the Halls of Montezuma... is a reference to the Chapultepec Castle, also known as the Halls of Montezuma. The Marine Corps also remembers this battle with the blood stripe on the dress blues uniform of NCOs and Officers. Priscilla's obituary: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F03E...


Brevet Brigadier General James St. Clair Morton
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Brevet Brigadier General James St. Clair Morton U.S.A of the Engineer Corps Promoted for gallant and meritorious services at Stone River Chickamauga Petersburg Born Sept 24, 1829 Killed in Action June 17, 1864 Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Name MORTON, James St Clair Born September 24 1829, Philadelphia PA Died June 17 1864, Petersburg VA Pre-War Profession Graduated West Point 1851, civil engineering duty. War Service June 1862 chief engineer in Army of the Ohio, Stone's River, November 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, chief engineer of the Army of the Cumberland, Chickamauga (w), worked on fortification of Chattanooga and Nashville, engineering duty in Washington, chief engineer of IX Corps, Petersburg (k). Brevet Promotions Brig. Gen. U.S.A. June 17 1864. sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung_m.html for more on him go to: books.google.com/books?id=2PSgcaLic-AC&pg=RA1-PA336&a...


LHC 30
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Kind of a spooky tombstone, the crypt door was carved to look like it was broken into and now was opened. I would like to know what it meant. There are many ghostly legends involving haunted, glowing and moving gravestones in America. While these tombstones can certainly be strange, and even a little spooky, there are few that can be as eerie as the baleful stare of a piece of graveyard statuary. Many of these monuments are nothing more than the peaceful, angelic forms of heavenly messengers.... but look into their cold, stone eyes. Does there seem to be something hidden there, lurking just below the surface? Or is that shadowed gaze just the result of the elements beating down on this figure year after year? There is no doubt about it. Graveyard statuary runs the entire gamut between beautiful and frightening. During the early part of the century, craftsmen were allowed to express themselves in cemetery art and create sculptures that included seductive angels, surrogate mourners and even the deceased themselves. Many of these sculptures have gained a reputation for being something other than just the ordinary artwork of a cemetery.... something which may not be of this world at all!


Vigil
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A winter scene at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. Laurel Hill is the first cemetery to be designated as a National Historic Landmark, and is the final resting place of many Civil War generals as well as rich and famous Philadelphians. Sculptors of monuments here include Alexander Milne Calder and Harriet Frishmuth.


HPIM5629
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George R. Henderson January 14, 1861 October 19, 1921 Virginia P Curry Wife of George R. Henderson Entered into life April 17, 1951 Emily Riter Daughter of G. R. & V.P. C. Henderson Sept 28, 1888 - Sept 20, 1903 I am the resurrection and the life


Robert Allen Trenwith
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Robert Allen Only son of John and Julia Trenwith Born April 6, 1870 Died Nove 6m 1892 aged 22 In 1891 he graduated from University of Pennsylvania as a Quondam Member.\ Laurel Hill Cemetery. Amazing what art you can find in a cemetery.


Stone Lion
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Monument atop the grave of Robert Patterson (1792-1881) in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. Patterson was a major-general in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.


RIP
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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. … You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet. - - - - William Boyd


Laurel Hill Celtic Cross 1
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I remember showing this one to a fellow Philly Photoblogger, who said Aw, that's too bad that the light was like that. Funny - I think the light being like that is what makes the shot!


Robert Allen Trenwith
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Robert Allen Only son of John and Julia Trenwith Born April 6, 1870 Died November 6, 1892 aged 22 In 1891 he graduated from University of Pennsylvania as a Quondam Member.


Thomas Allen Trenwith
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Thomas Allen Trenwith Born Jan 28, 1838 Died in Atlantic City Dec 24, 1900 aged 62 I wonder how he is related to the other Trenwith's. A detail of the rope on the anchor.


Robert Allen Trenwith
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Robert Allen Only son of John and Julia Trenwith Born April 6, 1870 Died Nove 6m 1892 aged 22 In 1891 he graduated from University of Pennsylvania as a Quondam Member.


DSC01001
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In a city of granite and marble - this one metal cross stands out. Jorj says, You're gonna burn out your CCD if you keep shooting into the Sun! But it looks so cool...


Ball at Laurel Hill Cemetery
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In the older historic area of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA. - www.thelaurelhillcemetery.org/


Heavenward gaze...
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f/5.0, ¹⁄₁₆₀₀ sec, ISO-200, ‒ ⁷⁄₁₀ EV, FL-200 mm, SONY DSLR-A900, SONY SAL70200G. I couldn't believe how blue the sky was without a polarizer.