Delaware County,colloquially referred to as Delco,is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that borders Philadelphia. With a population of 576,830 at the 2020 census,it is the fifth most populous county in Pennsylvania,and the third smallest in area. The county was created on September 26,1789,from part of Chester County,and named for the Delaware River.
Bethel Township is a township in Delaware County,Pennsylvania,United States. It contains the two unincorporated communities of Booth's Corner and Chelsea. The population was 8,791 at the 2010 census.
Chester is a city in Delaware County,Pennsylvania,United States within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. It is the only city in Delaware County with a population of 32,605 as of the 2020 Census.
Marple Township is a township in Delaware County,Pennsylvania,United States. It contains the census designated place of Broomall. The population was 23,743 at 2015. ZIP codes include mainly 19008,but also partially 19064 and 19063. The township is run by Marple Township board of commissioners.
Upland is a borough in Delaware County,Pennsylvania,United States. Upland is governed by an elected seven-member borough council. The population was 3,239 at the 2010 census,up from 2,974 at the 2000 census.
Powell Foulk Clayton was an American politician,diplomat,and businessman who served as the 9th governor of Arkansas from 1868 to 1871,as a Republican member of the U.S. Senate for Arkansas from 1871 to 1877 and as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 1897 to 1905.
John Morton was a farmer,surveyor,and jurist from the Province of Pennsylvania and a Founding Father of the United States. As a delegate to the Continental Congress during the American Revolution,he was a signatory to the Continental Association and the United States Declaration of Independence. Morton provided the swing vote that allowed Pennsylvania to vote in favor of the Declaration of Independence. Morton chaired the committee that wrote the Articles of Confederation.
Widener University is a private university in Chester,Pennsylvania. The university has three other campuses:two in Pennsylvania and one in Wilmington,Delaware.
The Crozer Theological Seminary was a multi-denominational seminary located in Upland,Pennsylvania. The school succeeded a Normal School established at the site in 1858 by the wealthy textile manufacturer John Price Crozer. The Old Main building was used as a hospital during the American Civil War. The seminary served as an American Baptist Church school,training seminarians for entry into the Baptist ministry from 1869 to 1970.
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 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.
John Middleton Clayton was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Jefferson County from 1871 to 1873 and the Arkansas State Senate for Jefferson County. In 1888,he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives but lost to Clifton R. Breckinridge. Clayton challenged the results and was assassinated in 1889 during the challenge to the election. He was declared the winner of the election posthumously. The identity of his assassin remains unknown.
William Henry Harrison Clayton,was an American lawyer and judge in post-Civil War Arkansas and Indian Territory Oklahoma. He served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas,as chief prosecutor in the court of "hanging judge" Isaac Parker for 14 years and as a federal judge in the Central District of the Indian Territory that became the state of Oklahoma.
Crozer Health is a four-hospital health system based in Delaware County,Pennsylvania and serving Delaware County;northern Delaware and parts of western New Jersey.
William Clayton was a settler of the Pennsylvania colony,one of the first councilors of Pennsylvania and a judge of the city of Philadelphia.
Delaware County National Bank is a historic bank building in Chester,Pennsylvania,located at the southwest corner of 3rd Street and Avenue of the States adjacent to the Old St. Paul's Church burial ground. It was built between 1882 and 1884,and is a 2+1⁄2-story masonry building in the Renaissance Revival style. It is built of brick and brownstone and has a low hipped slate-covered roof. The roof features metal cresting,five projecting decorated chimneys,and four Corinthian order pilasters supporting the front pediment dormer. It was headquarters for the Delaware County National Bank from 1884 to 1930.
Chester-Bethel Methodist Church is a Methodist church built in 1873 in Wilmington,Delaware,United States. The congregation,which dates to 1780 is the oldest Methodist congregation which has continuously gathered in the state of Delaware.
John Larkin Jr. was an American businessman,banker and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the first mayor of Chester,Pennsylvania.
