The Crozer Theological Seminary was a Baptist seminary located in Upland,Pennsylvania,and founded in 1868. It was named after the wealthy industrialist,John Price Crozer.
William Cameron Sproul was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1897 to 1919 and as the 27th governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923. He also served as chair of the National Governors Association from 1919 to 1922.
John Buchanan Robinson was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1884 to 1888,the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 9th district from 1889 to 1892 and the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1891 to 1897.
John Martin Broomall was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district from 1863 to 1869. He also served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the Delaware County district from 1851 to 1852.
Samuel Edwards was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1819 to 1823 and from Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1827.
Edward Darlington was a three term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from the Anti-Masonic Party. His cousins Isaac Darlington and William Darlington were also both members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William Darlington was an American physician,botanist,and politician who served as a Democratic-Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1819 to 1823.
William Harvey Berry was an American politician who served as Mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania,for one year in 1905 and as the Pennsylvania State Treasurer from 1906 to 1908. As Treasurer,Berry identified misappropriations in the graft scandal related to furnishing of the Pennsylvania State Capitol. Berry was President of the Berry Engineering Company,worked as Collector of the Port of Philadelphia and authored multiple books on economic policy.
Richard Jacobs Baldwin was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 1894,1896 and 1898 terms. He was reelected to the House for the 1910,1912,1914 and 1916 terms and served as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1917 to 1918. He was nominated speaker due to his twenty years of service in the house by the Republican political boss Boies Penrose. Baldwin also served a term in the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 9th Senatorial District from 1919 to 1920.
Chester Rural Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery founded in March 1863 in Chester,Pennsylvania. Some of the first burials were Civil War soldiers,both Union and Confederate,who died at the government hospital located at the nearby building which became the Crozer Theological Seminary.
The Third Presbyterian Church was a historic Presbyterian Church founded in 1872 in Chester,Pennsylvania. It was located at 9th and Potter Streets. The church was the location of the first summer bible school in 1912. The congregation closed in 1986 and was thereafter owned by the Chester Historical Preservation Committee. It was a stone Gothic Revival building designed by the noted Philadelphia architect Isaac Pursell. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in November 2019 but severely damaged by a five-alarm fire on May 28,2020.
John Larkin Jr. was an American businessman,banker and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the first mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania.
David Reese Esrey was an American businessman and banker from Chester,Pennsylvania.
Joseph Ridgeway Taylor Coates was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served as mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania,from 1887 to 1893. He was an officer in the Pennsylvania Reserves infantry division of the Union Army in the American Civil War and served in some of the key battles of the war.
Crosby Morton Black was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1905 to 1906. He also served as mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania from 1896 to 1899.
Ward Raymond Bliss was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1889 to 1906 and as Majority Leader from 1903 to 1904.
William P. Worrall was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1875 to 1876.
Young Singleton Walter was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1877 to 1880. He established the Delaware County Republican newspaper in 1833 and served as editor for 50 years.
Robert M. Chadwick was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1881 to 1888.
Wilmer Worthington was an American politician and physician who served in the Pennsylvania Senate from 1864 through 1869,serving as Speaker in 1869. A member of the Republican Party while in the Senate,Worthington previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1833 to 1834.
