WILLIAM CAMERON SPROUL was born in Octoraro, Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and educated at Swarthmore College. After initially buying part interest in the Chester Times, he purchased the newspaper…

A native of Simsbury, Connecticut, GIFFORD PINCHOT graduated from Yale University in 1889 and went on to study forestry in Europe. He surveyed forests for the Phelps-Dodge Company and for…

JOHN STUCHELL FISHER was born in South Mahoning Township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the Pennsylvania State Normal School (i.e., teacher training school), he taught school and served…

Born in Devon, Pennsylvania, GEORGE HOWARD EARLE attended Harvard University from 1909 to 1911. He served in the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry in 1916 and on the Mexican Border as a…

ARTHUR HORACE JAMES was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College’s law school in 1904 and began the practice of law in his home town. The following year…

A successful candidate in each of his fifteen campaigns for public office, EDWARD MARTIN was born in Washington Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Waynesburg College in 1901 and…

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, JOHN CROMWELL BELL received an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the varsity soccer and tennis teams. Continuing to play…

JAMES HENDERSON DUFF was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University in 1904, studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and received…

JOHN SYDNEY FINE was born near Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. After receiving his LL.B. degree from Dickinson School of Law in 1914, he was admitted to the Luzerne County Bar and began…

Born in York County, Pennsylvania, GEORGE MICHAEL LEADER received a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939, after which he became Secretary-Treasurer of his father’s poultry-breeding business. He was…

DAVID LEO LAWRENCE was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools and a two-year commercial school and began working at the age of fourteen as an aide to Pittsburgh’s…

Born in Madison, Connecticut, WILLIAM W. SCRANTON earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University in 1939. His law studies at Yale were interrupted by World War II, during…