During the late 18th century, Patrick Cassidy, a native of Newry, Ireland and an American soldier in the American Revolutionary War, purchased three hundred acres of land in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Hill once said he had no desire to live to see the collapse of the Confederacy, and on April 2, 1865 ( during the Union breakthrough in the Third Battle of Petersburg, just seven days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House ), he was killed by a Union soldier, Corporal John W. Mauck of the 138th Pennsylvania, as he rode to the front of the Petersburg lines, accompanied by a lone staff officer.

* James Irvine ( Pennsylvania ) ( 1735-1819 ), Pennsylvania soldier and politician

As a soldier in the Civil War, Hoyt was initially commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel, then as colonel of the 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry, leading it during the Peninsula Campaign and subsequent actions of the Army of the Potomac until January 1863, the regiment was ordered to Charleston, South Carolina.

John Armstrong, Sr., was a renowned Pennsylvania soldier born in Ireland of Scottish descent.

Edward Biddle ( 1738 – 1779 ) was an American soldier, lawyer, and statesman from Pennsylvania.

Samuel John Atlee ( 1739 – November 25, 1786 ) was an American soldier and statesman from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

John Bubenheim Bayard ( 11 August 1738 – 7 January 1807 ) was a merchant, soldier, and statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* William Butler ( colonel ) ( died 1789 ), American Revolutionary War soldier from Pennsylvania, one of five Butler brothers in the war

Edward Hand ( 31 December 1744 – 3 September 1802 ) was an Irish-born soldier, physician, and politician who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of general, and later was a member of several Pennsylvania governmental bodies.

* John Ormsby ( Pittsburgh ) ( 1720-1791 ), soldier and pioneer land developer of western Pennsylvania

* Clement Biddle ( 1740 – 1814 ) American Revolutionary War soldier, helped organize the “ Quaker Blues " volunteers, deputy quartermaster general of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey militia, brother of Owen Biddle, Sr.

* James Cooper ( Pennsylvania ) ( 1810 – 1863 ), American soldier and politician

Samuel Jackson Randall ( October 10, 1828 – April 13, 1890 ) was a Pennsylvania politician, attorney, soldier, and a prominent Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives during the late 19th century.

James Wolcott Wadsworth ( October 12, 1846, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 24, 1926, Washington, D. C .) was an American farmer, soldier and statesman.

* Ringgold Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold

William Irvine ( November 3, 1741 – July 29, 1804 ) was an Irish-American physician, soldier, and statesman from Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Ezekiel Polk ( December 7, 1747 – August 31, 1824 ), American soldier, pioneer and grandfather of President James Knox Polk, was the next youngest of five boys and three girls born to William Polk and Margaret Taylor Polk of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, near present-day Carlisle.

* John Cadwalader ( 1742 – 1786 ), an American merchant and soldier from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

* John Armstrong ( frontiersman ) ( 1755 – 1816 ), American soldier from Pennsylvania and Ohio

Over 40, 000 people gathered to parade silently down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, where protesters walked single file all evening, each calling out the name of a dead soldier as he or she reached the sidewalk directly in front of the White House.

Isaac Newton Lewis ( October 12, 1858, New Salem, Pennsylvania – November 9, 1931, Hoboken, New Jersey ) was an American soldier and inventor.

Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote: `` I am well convinced in my own mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago ''.

Prior to the commencement of the Roberts hearings, the chair of that committee, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, wrote an op / ed in the New York Times referring to Roe as a " super-precedent.

Later, Sondheim attended the New York Military Academy and George School, a private Quaker preparatory school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he wrote his first musical (" By George !").

Don McLean wrote the song in Cold Spring, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Robert Goerman wrote in Fate magazine in 1980, that " Carlos Allende " / " Carl Allen " was Carl Meredith Allen of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who had an established history of psychiatric illness, and who may have fabricated the primary history of the experiment as a result of his mental illness.

Adams is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses.

This is referenced numerous times within Cambria County, Pennsylvania documents by the notation that Godfrey Wilmore wrote the document and witnessed it by his signature, whereas the other parties sign by their mark “ X “.

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" Pennsylvania " wrote $ 3, 000 checks to different DOB members, who in turn signed them over to the organization.

A professor in the School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania collaborated in 1955 with Lazarsfeld, in research to observe the flow of influence at the intersections of mass and interpersonal communication and wrote their book Personal Influence Katz pursued Lazarfeld's research in a study of the flow of information.

Domenici has been an avid proponent of nuclear power and has published two books on the subject: " A Brighter Tomorrow: Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy " ( Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 ), which he wrote ; and " Advanced Nuclear Technologies — Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, U. S. Senate " ( Collingdale, Pennsylvania: D I A N E Publishing Company, 1999 ), which he edited.

He studied philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, and as a student he wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

This happened because Dr. Thomas Young, a participant in the writing of the Pennsylvania constitution and mentor for Ethan Allen, wrote a letter to the Vermont constitutional convention suggesting both that Vermont be the new republic's name and that Vermont model its constitution on the new, radically democratic Pennsylvania one.

An avid reader of Baum's books and a lifelong children's writer, Thompson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began her writing career in 1914 when she took a job with the Philadelphia Public Ledger ; she wrote a weekly children's column for the newspaper.

To Colonel Henry Bouquet at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was preparing to lead an expedition to relieve Fort Pitt, Amherst wrote on about June 29, 1763: " Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians?

His public life began in the 1880s with several judgeships ; Pennypacker also wrote extensively as president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Captain William Coit wrote in the Pennsylvania Journal of November 29, 1775, of a story of how he brought captive British sailors ashore " upon the same rock our ancestors first trod.

" Robert Walker Smith in his " History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania " ( Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883 ) reported that John Heckewelder ( a Moravian writer, explorer, and historian who wrote about the Lenape and other tribes in Western Pennsylvania in the 18th century ) claimed that the name is " corrupted from Gieschgumanito, signifying, make daylight.

They wrote hundreds of letters on their machine to various people, one of whom was James Densmore of Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Bland's observations at Brandywine supplied General Washington with the correct location of Lord Cornwallis ' and Howe's main armies ; Bland wrote two separate dispatches and Col James Ross of the 8th Pennsylvania wrote another dispatch reporting on the British.

Horner, professor of anatomy at University of Pennsylvania, who wrote back: " Since the opening of our lectures, the town has been so uncommonly healthy, that I have not been able to obtain a fourth part of subjects required for our dissecting rooms.