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100 unusual facts about Pennsylvania


Albert Kingsbury

2 Kingsbury died in 1943, and was buried at the Quaker Cemetery, Spring Mills, Pennsylvania.

Allentown Cardinals

The Cardinals played at Fairview Field until 1948, when they moved into the new Breadon Field, a steel and concrete stadium that seated 5,000 fans, which was located just north of the city in Whitehall Township.

Allison White

White was born in Pine Township, near Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania.

AWeber

Previous headquarters include Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, Newtown, Pennsylvania, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Board track racing

Driver fatalities continued to mount on board tracks into the 1920s, and included four Indianapolis 500 winners, three of which occurred at the Altoona track (another Pillsbury design) in Tipton, Pennsylvania, and three in the same years in which the driver won at Indianapolis.

Brooks Instrument

Founded in 1946 by Stephen A. Brooks, Brooks Instrument was originally based in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.

Burgettstown, Pennsylvania

Joffre, Bulger, Cherry Valley, Atlasburg, Slovan, Langeloth, Eldersville, Cross Creek, Studa.

Central Railroad of Pennsylvania

When Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) pushed a line into the Lehigh Valley through (left bank) East Mauch Chunk and (right bank, shared with the LH&S) Packerton, the LC&N management suddenly got motivated to have LH&S finish the connecting road through the Lehigh River Gorge.

Chapin Hall

He moved to Pine Grove (now Russell), Warren County, Pennsylvania, about 1841 and engaged in the lumber business and mercantile pursuits.

Chris Salvatore

Growing up in the small town of Richboro, Pennsylvania, he spent his days singing, acting, and performing for his family.

Clifford Brown

While driving at night in the rain on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, west of Bedford, she lost control of the car and it went off the road.

Cocalico School District

Attendance at Schoeneck Elementary School in Stevens, Pennsylvania during the 2005–2006 school year was 96.95%, essentially the same as the 97.12% scored in the prior year.

Compass Inn

Compass Inn is a historic inn and tavern located in Laughlintown, Ligonier Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Crown Metal Products

Ken's son, Bert Williams, continued to support the Crown locomotives, providing replacement parts and service through his company, Castle Ridge Products of Claysville, Pennsylvania, until 2004, when the necessary tooling and machinery was donated to the Tweetsie Railroad, who currently handles the restoration and service of the engines.

Deborah Servitto

Deborah A. Servitto, born February 17, 1956, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, was a Macomb County Circuit Judge.

Delanson, New York

The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company was organized and was expanded by buying or leasing railroads from Rouses Point, New York to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and the canal from Honesdale, Pennsylvania to Rondout, New York.

E. Bertram Mott

He attended public schools in Rockaway Township, before going on to Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1896.

East Liverpool, Ohio

Though in the bordering states of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, the communities of Chester and Newell, West Virginia and Glasgow, Pennsylvania owe their existence to East Liverpool's rapid population growth of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Farmers Valley, Pennsylvania

Farmers Valley is an unincorporated community in Keating Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, between Coryville and Smethport.

Foundation for New Era Philanthropy

Using the swelling funds from these churches, Bennett expanded further, establishing offices in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Frederick Christian Schaeffer

In the same year he became pastor of the Lutheran congregation at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained three years.

Gary M. Heidnik

Shortly after Maxine's birth, Heidnik was arrested for the kidnapping and rape of Anjeanette's sister Alberta, who had been living in an institution for the mentally disabled in Penn Township.

General Textile Mills

For historians researching the U.S. textile industry and Northeastern Pennsylvania and Carbondale, Pennsylvania industrialization, this is a name of interest.

George Trosley

Born in 1947 to a working-class family in Woodlyn, Pennsylvania, Trosley was fascinated by cars and drawing from early childhood.

Gramsci Melodic

Founder, Martin Rubeo is a native of the Pittsburgh suburb of Peters Township and an alumnus of Bucknell University (class of 2001) where he was a student of post-minimalist composer, William Duckworth.

Griffith Hughes

For example, there were and are several locations named Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Harry Haenigsen

In 1931, Haenigsen first moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania with his wife Bobby, but they stayed there only briefly.

Interboro High School

As the sole high school in the Interboro School District, students from surrounding communities Glenolden, Norwood, Prospect Park itself, and the two towns of Tinicum Township (Lester and Essington) attend grade levels 9-12 here.

James Ashbrook Perkins

James Ashbrook Perkins has been a Professor of English, at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania since 1973.

James Patton Anderson

He attended the medical school of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1840, before a family financial crisis forced him to withdraw a short time before graduation in 1842.

Jane Alpert

In 1956, her father took a job as vice president of the Linz Glass Company in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

Jared French

French entered the Mural and Easel Painting Section of the Public Works of Art Project, initiated by the Department of the Treasury in 1933, after which he produced murals for the post office in Plymouth, Pennsylvania (1937), and for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia (1939).

John Berne Hannum

Hannum served in that capacity until his death, in Unionville, Pennsylvania.

John Doebley

John Doebley began his undergraduate education as a biology major at West Chester State College in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

John G. Gertsch

John G. Gertsch went to high school in Sheffield Area Middle/Senior High School (SAMSHS) in Sheffield, Pennsylvania.

John Thorrington

Thorrington played in four matches for the U.S. Under-23 men's national team in 2000, including three of the U-23's four matches (two starts) in the 2000 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Hershey, Pennsylvania, helping the squad advance to the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Jonathan Greenleaf Eveleth

Bissell continued to considerably expand his and the New York investors' land in the Titusville region, in Franklin and Petroleum Center, PA.

Joseph Torchia

Torchia was born in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1964 (Johnsonburg High School).

Josh Singer

Singer attended Upper Dublin High School in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania where he appeared in musicals and became a presidential scholar and a National Merit Scholar.

Joshua Richmond

Richmond resides in Hillsgrove, Pennsylvania, and attended Troy State University.

Julian, Pennsylvania

The postal address Julian, is used even on the other side of Unionville, for example Fleming.

Ken Grundt

Following his playing career, Grundt has worked as senior instructor at Frozen Ropes, a baseball instructional center located at Dickson City, Pennsylvania.

Kenneth B. Pyle

Kenneth B. Pyle (born April 20, 1936 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) is a Japan historian and professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus.

Kobzarska Sich

Kobzarska Sich is held every August at All Saints Camp in Emlenton, Pennsylvania.

Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania

Lafayette Hill is located just west of Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood, and south of Plymouth Meeting.

Les Steckel

Steckel was born in Whitehall, Pennsylvania and attended the University of Kansas, where he was a Golden Gloves boxing champion and graduated in 1968 with a triple degree in social work, human relations, and political science.

LifeScan

Animas Corporation of West Chester, Pennsylvania, acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2006, reports to LifeScan.

Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway

The P2 ("East Busway Short") operates only between Wilkinsburg and Downtown and also makes a loop through Downtown.

Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania

The Mayor of Scranton is the chief executive of the government of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Scranton.

Michael Berryman

Berryman is a popular draw at genre conventions, such as the 2002 Horrorfind convention in Baltimore, Maryland, and the 2007 Eerie Horror Film Festival in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Michael Schoeffling

Schoeffling lives with his wife, Valerie L. Robinson of Virginia, also a former model, in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania.

Mike Reese

Reese was born in Mount Pleasant Township and graduated from Mount Pleasant Area High School.

National Watch and Clock Library

The National Watch and Clock Library is one of the world's pre-eminent libraries devoted to horology and is located in Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Nellie Peters Black

Black's father, Richard Peters, moved from Pennsylvania to Georgia to survey the railroads, as he worked as a civil engineer.

New Galilee

The New Galilee, Pennsylvania, a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States

Nicola Squitti

On January 23, 1887 Baron Squitti, under instructions from the State Department the Italian Consul at Philadelphia, conducted an inquiry into the death of Michael Fezano; an Italian frozen to death in a lockup in the City of Carbondale, USA on Christmas Day.

Oliver H. Smith

He is also believed to have been born at the Smith Family Farmstead in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Olympic Steel

The following year, Olympic entered the machining business by purchasing the assets of JNT Machining and opening a new facility in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Paoli, Oklahoma

It was named after Paoli, an unincorporated community outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where most of the railroad workers that basically built the town were from.

Pennsylvania Route 82

In Unionville, PA 82 begins to turn towards the west and is called Doe Run Road and has a concurrency with Pennsylvania Route 842.

Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district

Many of Allegheny County's southern suburbs of Pittsburgh are located in the district, which range from traditional wealth areas such as Mount Lebanon and Upper St. Clair, middle class communities such as Bethel Park, Brentwood & Scott Township, and working class labor towns such as Elizabeth.

Peter Blume

Blume worked for the Section of Painting and Sculpture of the U.S. Treasury Department, painting at least two post office murals, in Geneva, New York, and Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad

The railroad continued northwest along the left downstream bank of the Ohio to the vicinity of Beaver, Pennsylvania, where it crossed the river on the Beaver Bridge.

Pittsburgh Senior Classic

It was played in the greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area; first in Midway, Pennsylvania at the Quicksilver Golf Club (1993-1997) and then in Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania at the Sewickley Heights Golf Club.

Queen Alliquippa

After the British defeat at the Battle of the Great Meadows and the evacuation of Fort Necessity, Alliquippa moved her band to the Aughwick Valley of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania for safety.

Ralph Francis Scalera

He was in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957, afterwhich time he went into private practice in Beaver, Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1959.

Raven Rock, New Jersey

The bridge connects Bull's Island Recreation Area to Lumberville, Solebury Township, Pennsylvania.

Rex House

Rex House, also known as the Gemberling-Rex House, is a historic home located at Schaefferstown in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

Richard Bloomingdale

He has lectured on the topic of "workforce development" at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Richard G. Jewell

Richard G. Jewell is the eighth president of Grove City College, a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

Robin Collins

He currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.

Robins Air Force Base

When the U.S. Air Force closed down its maintenance depots at the former Brookley AFB in Mobile, Alabama and the former Olmsted AFB in Middleton Township, Pennsylvania, Robins AFB assumed the workload of these depots.

Rodney Pocceschi

After college he served with the Bloomsburg University Police Department and the Nescopeck Police Department.

Sacred Oak

Today, the Sacred Oak still grows in a forested area just off Friedensburg Road in Oley Township.

Sam Felton

Felton declined the offer to return to his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania and pursue a career in business.

Sarah Tyson Rorer

She was born at Richboro, Pa., daughter of Charles Tyson Heston, a pharmacist, and Elizabeth Sagers.

Schuylkill Canal Association

The area extends along the canal and left bank of the Schuylkill River, from Mont Clare past Port Providence.

Schuylkill River Trail

Many current and proposed sections of the Schuylkill River Trail, including the Thun Trail and the Oaks to Philadelphia portion, are rail trails, following the right-of-way of the former Schuylkill Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Sebastian Currier

Sebastian Currier (born March 16, 1959, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras.

Sideling Hill

The Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 76) crosses Sideling Hill east of Breezewood, Pennsylvania, bypassing the two-lane Sideling Hill tunnel and the nearby Rays Hill tunnel that were formerly used by the Turnpike.

Sidney Greenberg

A native New Yorker, he spent more than 50 years as Rabbi of Temple Sinai, now in Dresher, Pennsylvania.

Sons of the Prophet

Brothers Joseph Douaihy (29 years old) and Charles Douaihy (18 years old), who live in a run-down area of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, are left alone after their father dies of a heart attack two weeks after a car accident.

Steve Pulcinella

Pulcinella was born and raised in Ridley Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania where he began strength training at his high school, Ridley High School in Folsom, with his cousin, now-bodybuilder Dave Pulcinella.

Sylvia Seegrist

for evaluation and was eventually moved to the State Correctional Institution in Muncy.

The Fabulous Dorseys

The Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 fictionalized biographical film which tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.

Tiger Schulmann

After completing his career as a fighter, he opened his first training center in 1984, known as United American Karate, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

Tommy Van Scoy

Van Scoy was born March 22, 1920, in Bear Creek, Pennsylvania.

Torneo cibernetico

The first Chikara Torneo Cibernetico took place on October 30, 2004 in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and featured "Sweet 'n' Sour International" (Larry Sweeney (captain), Crossbones, Hallowicked, Mano Metalico, Rorschach, ShareCropper, Spyrazul and UltraMantis Black) wrestling against the team of Jigsaw (captain), DJ Skittlez, Gran Akuma, Icarus, Jolly Roger, Mister ZERO, Private Eye and Shane Storm.

Tri-Hill, Pennsylvania

Tri-Hill is located in Spring Garden Township connected to the neighborhood of Violet Hill.

Trombetto

The final version was custom-crafted using additional tubing attached to a rare, antique 4th valve for the purpose of completing the horn’s lower registry capability, by brass technician, Ted Weir at the former Brass & Woodwind Shop in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

US Army Medical Materiel Center – Southwest Asia

USAMMC-SWA was established as a provisional unit just before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, manned by the Soldiers assigned to the 6th Medical Logistics Management Center (6MLMC) from Fort Detrick, Maryland, the 388th Medical Battalion (Logistics) from Hays, Kansas and the 424th Medical Battalion (Logistics) from Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.

VF Corporation

An outlet mall located in Vanity Fair's old manufacturing mills in Wyomissing, just outside Reading, Pennsylvania.

Walter O. Hoffecker

He graduated from Smyrna Seminary in 1872, and in September 1873, he entered Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he studied civil engineering.

Westinghouse Electric Company

Controlled by the Toshiba Group, Westinghouse's world headquarters is located in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States.

William H. Sylvis

In 1990 the state of Pennsylvania honored Sylvis with the dedication of a historical marker at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania.

William P. Greene, Jr.

During his career as a Judge Advocate, he completed his military education at the Basic, Advanced, and Military Judges' courses at The Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

William R. Furlong

William Rea Furlong was born on May 26, 1881 in the town of Allenport, Pennsylvania as a son of William Allen Furlong and Ethel Grant Furlong.

WITF-TV

In 2007, it moved to a purpose-built facility in Swatara Township.

WKBS-TV

call letters = WKBS-TV
(satellite of WPCB-TV, Greensburg/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)|

WPPX-TV

WPPX maintains offices located on Main Street in Bala Cynwyd, and its transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.


Adlai Stevenson I

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

Area codes 215 and 267

215 and 267 are the North American telephone area codes for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which serve its southeast corner, including the city of Philadelphia and its northern and eastern suburbs.

Arthur Bates

Arthur Laban Bates (1859–1934), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

Cerussite

Finely crystallized specimens have been obtained from the Friedrichssegen mine in Lahnstein near Nassau, Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony, Mies in Bohemia, Phoenixville in Pennsylvania, Broken Hill, New South Wales; and several other localities.

Chris King

Christopher J. King (born 1976), former Pennsylvania state representative

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

CV Productions, Inc.

“The Sports Museum has brought to light the central role that Pittsburgh has played in the sports of boxing and wrestling, focusing on such greats as Bruno Sammartino and Kurt Angle,” said Anne Madarasz, co-director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.

Doe v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

John Doe was an employee for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority SEPTA who had contracted Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome HIV/AIDS.

Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation

By the spring of 1946, Eckert and Mauchly had procured a U.S. Army contract for the University of Pennsylvania and were already designing the EDVAC — the successor machine to the ENIAC — at the university's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.

Erik Arneson

Erik Arneson is a prominent political staffer in Pennsylvania, serving as Chief of Staff for former Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Chip Brightbill and as Communications and Policy Director for current Majority Leader Dominic F. Pileggi.

Flyer II

Ravine Flyer II, a hybrid wooden roller coaster located at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

Grape pie

Vineyards that grow the grape, which was developed in the U.S., stretch from Western New York across Pennsylvania and into Ohio, forming a "narrow 100-mile-long strip" which includes Westfield, New York (known as "Concord grape juice capital of the world"), on the southern Lake Erie shore.

Gregory Michael

At a young age, Michael was active in community theater, portraying lead characters in the musicals Blood Brothers, The Music Man, and Damn Yankees, which were performed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Harrisburg Air National Guard Base

In 1998, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania transferred ownership of the airport to the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA).

Hybrid Ice

Hybrid Ice was the first local (Pennsylvania based) rock band to play at the Bloomsburg Fair in 1984.

James Chase

James Mitchell Chase (1891–1945), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Jefferson County Airport

DuBois Regional Airport, formerly DuBois-Jefferson County Airport, in Pennsylvania, United States (FAA: DUJ)

Jesse White

Jesse J. White, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

John Westbrook

John Westbrook Hornbeck (1804–1848), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

KCAC

Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, a convention and athletic center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Marino Auriti

Auriti settled in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania and there created his famed work which in 2013 served as the inspiration for director Massimiliano Gioni's main curated pavilion on at the fifty fifth edition of the Venice Biennale.

Mary Celine Fasenmyer

Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer, R.S.M., (October 4, 1906, Crown, Pennsylvania – December 27, 1996, Erie, Pennsylvania) was a mathematician.

McClellan Heights, Pennsylvania

McClellan Heights, located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, is a neighborhood adjacent to the city of York and is part of the campus of the York College of Pennsylvania.

Minsi

Mount Minsi, a hill on the Pennsylvania side of Delaware Water Gap

Muhlenberg Greene Architects

Frequently confused with the Muhlenberg Brothers, an architecture/engineering firm also operating in Reading, Pennsylvania during the first half of the 20th century, Muhlenberg Greene Architects was never affiliated with Muhlenberg Brothers’ firm, although Frederick Muhlenberg does have familial ties with the Brothers.

N43

Braden Airpark in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States (FAA code)

René Peña

René de Jesus Peña Gonzalez is a Cuban artist specializing in photography, and exposed his pictures in different exhibitions in Cuba (Havana), Spain and in the US (Seattle, Pennsylvania, New-York).

Reuben A. Holden III

In 1910, at the age of 20, Holden won the National Intercollegiate title for Yale, defeating R. Thayer of Pennsylvania in the first round, Cullen Thomas of Princeton in the second, S. F. Raleigh of Princeton in semis and Arthur Sweetser of Harvard in the final.

Richard Thornburg

Dick Thornburgh (spelled with another "h"), a former Pennsylvania Governor and US Attorney General

Ron Rowan

Born in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, Rowan starred at Beaver Falls (Pennsylvania) High School, averaging nearly 26 points per game as a senior.

Sam Rappaport

Samuel Rappaport, former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Samuel B. Booth

He was rector of St. Luke's Church, Kensington, Philadelphia (1914-1918), chaplain to an American Red Cross evacuation hospital in France, and superintendent of missions, Bucks County, Pennsylvania before consecration as bishop coadjutor of Vermont on February 17, 1925.

Samuel Bernard Dick

He then commanded the Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and proceeded to New Creek, West Virginia, in July 1863.

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

Seneca Valley School District

In 2009, the 8th grade was ranked 34th out of 141 western Pennsylvania middle schools based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and one year of science.

Symyx Technologies

In 2008, Symyx sold non-RTECS portions of the occupational health and safety (OHS) component of the MDL business to ChemAdvisor, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

The bridging sequences show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania).

Thomas McMahon

Tom McMahon, American politician and former mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania

Tour De Force – Live

Tour de Force — Live is a live album by Italian-American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist Al Di Meola, released in 1982, and recorded at the Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 4, 1982.

U.S. Route 6 in Ohio

7.5 miles north of Andover, US 6 breaks its concurrency with SR 7, turns east, and enters Pennsylvania in Crawford County, just north of the Pymatuning Reservoir.

Violence Against Women Act

However, several of them, including Steve King (R-Iowa), Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), Tim Walberg (R-Michigan), Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Keith Rothfus (R-Pennsylvania), and Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania), later claimed to have voted in favor of the act.

Walt Levinsky

Later Walt attended the Music Conservatory at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania where he majored in clarinet.

WHUN

WHUN-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to serve Mount Union, Pennsylvania

William Findley

At one point, Constitutional Convention delegate James Wilson and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Thomas McKean disputed one of Findley's statements about jury trials in Sweden; Findley returned two days later with William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and demonstrated that his reference had been correct.