Robert Strawbridge began a Methodist work in Maryland at the same time as Embury began his work in New York.

Claude Dukenfield ( as he was known ) worked at the Strawbridge and Clothier department store and in an oyster house, before he left home at age 18 ( not 11, as many biographies have said ).

Originally founded as a North American Soccer League expansion franchise in 1975 by George Strawbridge, the Rowdies played ten seasons at Tampa Stadium and won their only Soccer Bowl championship in their inaugural season defeating the Portland Timbers 2 – 0.

After the sale the stores operated simply as Strawbridge's, although exterior signage reading Strawbridge & Clothier remained in place at many locations until the stores became Macy's in 2006.

Strawbridge name is gone but the corner at 8th and Market remains in its vast shadow.

A second Methodist class was formed nearby at the Andrew Poulson ’ s home, when the crowds became too large for the Poulson house, Robert would preach under an old oak tree in the meadow which was called " Strawbridge Oak ".

An early convert of Robert ’ s, Richard Owings, preached the funeral sermon, and Strawbridge was buried at the Wheeler Farm.

Series one followed former Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge, his wife Brigit, son James, and daughter Charlotte as they moved into Newhouse Farm, a 400-year-old listed building in Cornwall, England from Malvern, Worcestershire.

Newhouse Farm is the home of Dick Strawbridge and his son James, and is where much of the filming for all 3 series of It's Not Easy Being Green occurred.

Virginia Beach has many distinctive communities and neighborhoods within its boundaries, including: Acredale, Alanton, Aragona Village, Arrowhead, Bay Colony, Bayside, Blackwater, Brigadoon, Brighton on the Bay, Buckner Farms, Carolanne Farm, Castleton, Chesapeake Beach, College Park, Croatan Beach, Glenwood, Great Neck, Green Run, Greenwich, Heritage Park, Hilltop, Indian Lakes, Indian River Plantation, Kempsville, Kings Grant, Lago Mar, Landstown, Little Neck, London Bridge, Lynnhaven, Magic Hollow, Middle Plantation, Munden, the North End, Oceana, Ocean Lakes, Ocean Park, Oceanfront, Old Beach, Pembroke Manor, Pembroke Meadows, Pembroke Shores, Pine Meadows, Princess Anne, Pungo, Redwing, Salem, Sandbridge, Seatack, Thalia, Strawbridge, Thalia Shores, Thoroughgood, Windsor Woods, and Witchduck Point.

It then moved to the old Strawbridge & Clothier building in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, where it went public in February 1998, with 110 employees and annual ( 1997 ) revenues of around $ 18M.

George W. Strawbridge, Jr., an active shareholder of the Buffalo Sabres and director and member of the team's executive committee for more than 30 years, named one of his thoroughbred racehorses in Pierre Turgeon's honor.

Strawbridge is best known to the general public as an engineering and environmental expert on such television programmes as Scrapheap Challenge ( on which his team, Brothers in Arms, were series champions and on which he took over from Robert Llewellyn as the main presenter in Series 11 ), three series of It's Not Easy Being Green for BBC Two, the six-part BBC Two series Crafty Tricks of War of which he was the main presenter, Planet Mechanics, and as a regular guest presenter on Coast.

The 1994 Breeders ' Cup Turf was won by Tikkanen, a Thoroughbred racehorse named in Esa Tikkanen's honor by George W. Strawbridge, Jr., owner of Augustin Stable and an active director of the Buffalo Sabres NHL ice hockey club and a member of the team's executive committee for more than thirty years.

In 1997, May acquired Wanamaker's historic rival Strawbridge & Clothier and re-branded all Philadelphia-area Hecht's locations with the Strawbridge's name.

Their management consolidated with Hecht's the same year, but the Strawbridge name was retained and expanded to all the Philadelphia locations.

Also in 2006, Strawbridge appeared as a one-off presenter on the BBC2 series Coast, examining the workings of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, a role he revived in the 2007 version of Coast, presenting a short part of the program on the failure of Exercise Tiger.

In 2011 Dick Strawbridge and his son James filmed a 20 part series, The Hungry Sailors, which was broadcast in the UK by ITV in early 2012.

It's Not Easy Being Green is a television series on BBC Two starring Dick Strawbridge and focusing on how to live an environmentally friendly, low impact life.

A book entitled ‘ It's Not Easy Being Green: One Family's Journey Towards Eco-Friendly Living ’ ISBN 0-563-49346-1 by Dick Strawbridge was released to accompany the series and is still available to buy.

Up until this time, with the exception of Strawbridge, none of the missionaries or American preachers was ordained.

One of the most famous circuit riders was Robert Strawbridge who lived in the vicinity of Carroll County, Maryland soon after arriving in the Colonies around 1760.

Originally named Strawbridge by founder Cyrus W. “ Charley ” Wilson, the name was later changed in honor of railroad Engineer Joseph P. Sanderson.

The most prominent farm was owned by David Strawbridge, who named it Castle Shanahan.

One of the first several suburban locations of Strawbridge & Clothier was located in Springfield.

The third of seven children, Strawbridge was born in Burma and raised and educated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, attending Ballyclare High School from 1971 – 76.

He was married to Brigit Strawbridge and the couple have two children, James and Charlotte, but the couple separated in 2010.

Strawbridge also had a major role in the BBC's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day, and was the co-host and resident " boffin " on the 2005 game show, Geronimo !.

Each was owned by a major Philadelphia department store ; WFI was operated by Strawbridge and Clothier, while WDAR was run by Lit Brothers.

Clarkson was the brother of Isaac H. Clothier, one of the founders of Strawbridge and Clothier, the Philadelphia department store.

The show was perhaps unique in that the family did not want great sacrifices in achieving their goal, and Dick Strawbridge said " I don't want to wear a hemp shirt and hairy knickers, I want a 21st-century lifestyle with a coffee machine ".

Strawbridge's ( formerly Strawbridge & Clothier ) was a department store in the northeastern United States with stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

It was the vision of S & C Chairman Stockton Strawbridge that was instrumental in revitalizing the Market East retail district in the 1970s, a vision that is still apparent today despite the demise of both Gimbels and Strawbridge's.

However, the Strawbridge & Clothier head office was closed and its operations were consolidated with Hecht's in Arlington, Virginia.

Once May assumed the company, the Strawbridge & Clothier Seal of Confidence was no longer a prominent marketing image.

Strawbridge ordained himself and organized a circuit.

This statue of Benjamin Franklin donated by Justus C. Strawbridge to the City of Philadelphia in 1899 now sits in front of College Hall ( University of Pennsylvania ) | College Hall.

Route 38 then travels by the Moorestown Mall before passing by the Strawbridge Lake Park.

The old Strawbridge & Clothier has been reconstructed into a Target.

The Jenkins ' Town Lyceum Building and Strawbridge and Clothier Store are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ardmore contains the nation's first suburban branch of a major department store, the former Strawbridge and Clothier which opened there in 1930 ; the former Suburban movie theater — now American Eagle Outfitters ; the newly relocated Ardmore Farmer's Market ; an Apple Store, and the usual selection of mall shops.

Worn by John Bolton, Dick Strawbridge, Wilford Brimley, Friedrich Nietzsche and Jamie Hyneman.

The unincorporated communities of Jenkinsville and Strawbridge are also located in the town.

This included May's Marshall Field's ( purchased by the May Company from Target just eight months prior to Federated's purchase of the May Company ), Kaufmann's, Famous-Barr, Filene's, Foley's, Hecht's, The Jones Store, L. S. Ayres, Meier & Frank, Robinsons-May, and Strawbridge & Clothier chains, pending approval of the merger by federal regulators.

In summer 2010, she appeared in Celebrity Masterchef, reaching the final alongside Dick Strawbridge and eventual winner Lisa Faulkner.

In 1891 he helped found " The Reform Political League of Pennsylvania ", with Herbert Welsh as president, Henry C. Lea and Justus C. Strawbridge as vice-presidents, and Charles E. Richardson, secretary.