Keystone Tombstones - Philadelphia Region
Joe Farrell
Non-Fiction
Biographies of famous people buried in the Philadelphia Region are the focus of this first localized edition of the Keystone Tombstones. Farrell and Farley have combed the Philadelphia area to bring you...
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Biographies of famous people buried in the Philadelphia Region are the focus of this first localized edition of the Keystone Tombstones. Farrell and Farley have combed the Philadelphia area to bring you the most entertaining tales about interesting people buried in Pennsylvania. Included in this volume:
Bucks County
- Pearl Buck
- Saint Katherine Drexel
- Tom Gola
Chester County
- Smedley Butler
- Jim Croce
Delaware County
- Marian Anderson
- Paul Arizin
- John McDermott
- Herman Webster Mudgett aka Dr. Henry H. Holmes
- Danny Murtaugh
- Philadelphia Sinners
- Bessie Smith
- Anthony Wayne
Montgomery County
- Alan Ameche
- Richie Ashburn
- Lafayette C. Baker
- De Bonneville "Bert" Bell
- Jay Cooke
- Dave Garroway
- Winfield Scott Hancock
- John Hartranft
- Herman Haupt
- Teddy Pendergrass
- Arlen Specter
- Grover Washington Jr.
- Harry Wright
- Samuel K. Zook
Philadelphia County
- William (Willie) Law Anderson
- John Barrymore
- Ulric Dahlgren
- Four Founders
- Samuel W. Crawford
- Benjamin Franklin
- Joe Frazier
- General Controversy
- Franklin Gowen
- Harry Norbert Kalas
- Oliver B. Knowles
- Connie Mack
- George Meade
- Robert Morris & James Wilson
- St. Clair Augustine Mulholland
- Saint John Newman
- Dennis O'Kane
- John C. Pemberton
- Galusha Pennypacker
- Frank Rizzo
- Bill Tilden
- John Wanamaker
by Farrell & Farley
Page Count: 360
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Publish Date: April 27, 2015
Imprint: Sunbury Press
Genre: History
History / US History / Mid-Atlantic
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