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C LARENCE WOODVILLE De LANNOY, M. D., a graduate of the St. Louis college, of Brussels, Belgium, and of the Jefferson Medical college, of Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, is the only son of Prof. Felix and Sarah Jane ( Ring) De Lannoy, and was born August 20, 1855, in the city of Rome, Georgia. Prof. Felix De Lannoy (father ) was one of a colony of gentlemen who came to America from Brussels, Belgium, and settled in Georgia, where he continued to reside un- til the breaking out of our civil war, when he removed to Brattleboro, Vermont. After a few years' residence in that State he removed with his family to Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he became professor in the Pennsylvania Military academy, situated in this city. He died May 8, 1887, in the six- tieth year of his age. Prof. De Lannoy was twice married, his first wife being Sarah Jane Ring. By this union he had two children : Dr. Clarence W., and Sarah Jane, who be- came the wife of Col. B. F. Morley, now vice- president of the Pennsylvania Military acad- emy at Chester. Mrs. De Lannoy died in 1859, and Prof. DeLannoy afterward married Martha Crosby, of Brattleboro, Vermont. By his second marriage he had three children, one son and two daughters : Anna E., unmarried ; Helen M., who wedded Prof. Silas Comfort, now occupying the chair of mathematics in the Pennsylvania Military academy, and George, now cashier of the Eddystone Print works at Chester. Mrs. Martha De Lannoy is still living. She is a native of Brattleboro, Vermont, and an artist of considerable note, being regarded as one of the best portrait painters in this part of the country, and also remarkably successful in the painting of flowers.
Clarence Woodville De Lannoy spent his first years in the city of his birth, but went to Vermont with his father when about six years of age, and near the close of the civil war came with him to the city of Chester. His preparatory education was received in private
and select schools, and at the age of thirteen he was sent abroad and placed in the St. Louis college of Brussels, Belgium, where he re- mained until his twentieth year. In 1875 he returned to Chester, Pennsylvania, and shortly afterward attached himself to a corps of scien- tific artists who were engaged in making draw- ings of fossil remains of animals to illustrate Prof. lloyden's survey of the territories of the United States. Mr. De Lannoy was engaged in that work for a period of two years and a half, during which he evinced remarkable artistic ability and a profound knowledge of prehistoric zoology, thus proving himself one of the most valuable members and best skilled artists of the corps. His work in this con- nection was highly appreciated. and he was shortly afterward made a member of the Phil- adelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In the fall of 1877 Mr. De Lannoy entered the Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia, having determined on medicine as a profes- sion, and was graduated from that well known institution with the degree of M. D. in April, 1881. During his medical course Dr. De Lan- noy made a special study of pathology, and at the final examinations carried off the honors in that department. It had been his intention to practice in Philadelphia, but on account of a brief illness at the time of his graduation he returned to Chester, and was prevailed upon to locate in this city, where he opened an office in November, 1881, and later was called to the chair of histology and pathology in the Philadelphia Chirurgical college, which he held during two sessions and then resumed the practice of medicine in Chester. During his conection with the college he was called upon to give expert testimony in a number of important trials in the courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, among them being the celebrated Mary Anderson murder case, in which Barclay Peek was sentenced to twenty years' confinement in the penitentiary. He also did expert work and gave expert testi- mony in several other sensational trials in
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other parts of the State. Among the latest work of this kind was rendering the medical testimony in the Rogers murder case.
In 1885 Dr. De Lannoy was united in mar- riage to Adalaide Slippy, of Petersburg, Vir- ginia. To them has been born a family of five children : Felix, George Norman, Clar- ence Woodville, jr., Francis Charles, and Paul Louis.
Dr. C. W. De Lannoy is an active member of the Pennsylvania State Medical society. and of the Delaware County Medical society. He is a frequent contributor to the best med- ical journals, and in every way keeps himself thoroughly abreast of the leading medical thought of his time. In addition to his large private practice he is also connected with the medical staff of the Chester hospital, and is regarded as among the most learned phys- icians of eastern Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM II. GREEN, Jr., vice presi- dent of the Vulcan Works Company, of South Chester, and one of the most successful and most popular young business men of Delaware connty, is a son of William H., sr., and Elizabeth (Chalmers) Green, and was born under the shadow of Bunker Hill, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, January 29. 1859. He came with his parents to the city of Ches- ter, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, when only five years of age, and was reared and educated here. For a time he attended the public schools of Chester and later took a full course in the old Chester academy, after which he took a commercial course at Pierce's Busi- ness college, and at the age of fifteen began assisting his father in his business in South Chester. During the earlier years he did clerical work and looked after outside busi- ness, but in time became more directly con- cerned in the management of the Vulcan works, then owned by his father, and re- mained in business with him until his death, in 1893. In November. 1892, the Vulcan
works were incorporated as a joint stock com- pany, at which time the elder Green was elected president, and the subject of this sketch became vice president of the new or- ganization. He still holds the position of vice president of the company, and can always be found at the works busily engaged in look- ing after the business and managing the numerous details which need constant atten- tion in any well regulated and successful en- terprise. The Vulcan works have the prond distinction of being the only manufacturing business in South Chester which has never shut down for a day since it was started. This fact is due alike to the sagacity and fore- sight of its founders, and the untiring enter- prise of its later owners, who, having firm faith in the future development of this sec- tion, are not easily disheartened by occasional lulls in business, but go right on with a de- termination which discounts failure and leads to final success as surely as cause produces effect. And one of the prime factors in secur- ing this satisfactory state of affairs is the care- ful and able management of Mr. Green, who undoubtedly inherits much of the talent and ability that distinguished his father's career, and made his name so prominent among the manufacturers of eastern Pennsylvania.
On November 5, 1882, William H. Green, jr., was wedded to Emma Hamor Taylor, a daughter of William Taylor, then cashier of the First National bank of Chester. To Mr. and Mrs. Green have been born three chil- dren, two sons and a danghter : Ellwood Gar- rett, Margaret H., and Malcolm McKensey, the two elder now attending the public schools.
Adhering to the political traditions of his family, Mr. Green is a democrat, and while supporting his party on National and State questions, is somewhat inclined toward inde- pendence in local politics. He has been so thoroughly devoted to business as to find little time for active participation in the heated contests which semi-annually disturb the on- ward march of commercial affairs, and inter-
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fere with the material growth and develop- ment of manufacturing enterprises. In reli- gion he is an Episcopalian, being a member of St. Luke's church of Chester, and for twenty years the librarian of its Sunday school. He is also a member of the Sons of St. George, of Philadelphia, which society was founded one hundred and twenty-eight years ago. Mr. Green is pleasant and affable as a companion, well informed on all questions of the day, and extremely popular among those who are fortunate enough to enjoy his acquaintance and friendship. For ancestral history, see sketch of William H. Green, sr., on another page of this volume.
C HARLES D. SMEDLEY, M. D., a
leading physician of the village of Wayne, this county, and a graduate of the Hahne- mann Medical college, of Philadelphia, who is also prominent in Masonic and religious cir- cles, is a son of Davis and Anna M. ( Davis) Smedley, and was born in the city of Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1854. The 'Smedleys are of English extraction, but have been residents of Pennsylvania since the time of William Penn, representatives of the family having come into the colony with the early English Quakers, while Penn was yet pro- prietor of the province, and settled in Chester county. One of the Smedleys married a Miss Sharpless, and thus the family became con- nected with the Sharpless family of Chester, one of the oldest and most highly respected in the connty. Peter Smedley, paternal grand- father of Dr. Smedley, was a native of Ches- ter county, and became one of the leading farmers of Uwchlan township, where he died in 1863, at the advanced age of seventy-two years. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, married Priscilla Smith, a native of Chester county, and reared a family of ten children, only six of whom now survive. His son, Davis Smedley (father), was born on the old homestead, in Uwchlan township, 26
Chester county, in 1831. There he grew to manhood, and received a good common school education. While yet a young man he learned the milling business, and removed to Phila- delphia, where he principally resided until October, 1889, when he removed to Wayne, Delaware county, which has been his home ever since. For the last eighteen years he has been engaged in the manufacture of spices in the city of Philadelphia, where he does a large business. During the civil war he served for a year and a half as a non-commissioned offi- cer in the 303d Pennsylvania infantry, and participated in several of the hardest battles of the war. Politically he is a republican, and in religion a strict member of the Society of Friends. He married Anna M. Davis in 1852, and they were the parents of two chil- dren, a son and a danghter : Charles Davis and Mary Ella. Mrs. Anna M. Smedley was born in Germantown, now Philadelphia, in 1836, and is consequently now in the fifty- eighth year of her age, she being a daughter of Jesse and Mary Mather Davis, and a grand- daughter of Thomas Mather, of Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Charles D. Smedley was reared in his native city of Philadelphia, and acquired his ednca- tion in the public schools and at the Friends' Central High school. He afterward learned the drug business, and later worked for some time at the publishing and printing business in Philadelphia. During part of this time he read medicine with Dr. Samuel M. Trinkle, of that city, with whom he remained three years. He then entered the Hahnemann Medical col- lege, of Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1885. After his graduation Dr. Smedley prac- ticed medicine in Philadelphia for three years, and in January, 1889, removed to the village of Wayne, Delaware county, where he has conducted a very successful general practice ever since. Before coming to Wayne he had spent two years in the Children's hospital of West Philadelphia, and a like period in the
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dispensary or surgery department of the Hahn- emann hospital, of Philadelphia. Dr. Smed- ley is pleasing in manner, and very popular as a physician and citizen. While not making a specialty of surgery, he is quite skillful in that department, and does a great deal of work in that line. He is a prominent member of the Philadelphia, and Delaware and Montgomery counties Homeopatic Medical societies, and of the Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Medical society.
Dr. Smedley was married January 18, 1893, to Catharine E. Rems, daughter of James Rems, of the city of Philadelphia. The doc- tor is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church at Wayne, and is also a member of Wayne Lodge, No. 581, Free and Accepted Masons ; Montgomery Chapter, No. 262, Royal Arch Masons ; and of St. Albans Commandery, No. 48, Knights Templar, of Philadelphia. Politically he is a stanch re- publican, but too deeply engrossed in the practical duties of his chosen profession to give much attention to politics.
A LEXANDER HART, a resident of
Chester city, and the machine engineer of the great Eddystone Print works, is a son of Alexander, sr., and Catherine ( Darroch) Hart, and was born at Lochwinnoch, Scot- land, April 10, 1853. Alexander Hart, sr., was born, in 1813, in the Highlands of Scotland, and went to Lowlands at an early age, where he was grazier and veterinary surgeon for many years. He now resides at Kilbarchan, that country. He was a member of the Kirk of Scotland, the established church of that land. He married Catherine Darroch, and to them were born eight children, five sons and three daughters: Mary McOnie, now residing in Australia; John, who died in Panama in 1891 ; Catherine, now a resident of Glasgow, Scotland ; Colin, also a resident of Glasgow ; Robert, who served in the British army, and was shot in the arm at the battle of Tel El
Kiber, in Egypt; James, of Kilbarchan; Ag- nes, deceased ; and Alexander, the subject of this sketch.
Alexander Hart received his education in Lochwinnoch parish school of Scotland, and left school at seventeen years of age to be- come an apprentice to machine engraving for calico printing. Completing his required ap- prenticeship of five years, he worked at Glas- gow, Scotland, until 1876, when he came to South Bridge, Massachusetts, where he worked at his trade up to October, 1878. In that year he came to Chester, and entered the great Eddystone Print works as machine en- gineer. His particular work consists in get- ting the patterns in proper shape and adjust- ing them on the rollers ready for printing. Mr. Hart is a skilled and experienced work- man in his line, and his services are well appreciated by the owners of the Eddystone Print works, the largest of their kind in Amer- ica. He is interested in the material progress of Chester, being a director for the last seven years in the Excelsior Building and Loan as- sociation. Mr. Hart is a member of L. H. Scott Lodge, No. 352, Free and Accepted Masons: the Heptasophs, Order of Tonti, Robert Burns club, and Chester Republican club. He is a strong republican, and a mem- ber of First Baptist church.
On July 2, 1879, Mr. Hart wedded Jessie Hamilton, of Glasgow, Scotland, whose father, George Hamilton, is a boot and shoe manu- facturer of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have five children : Bessie, Alexander, Jen- nie, George, and Catherine.
F RANCIS F. FORWOOD, M. D.,
member of the board of pension examin- ers in the city of Chester, and physician in charge of the Chester hospital, is a son of William S. and Rebecca (Glenn) Forwood, and was born September 6, 1867, at Belaire, Harford county, Maryland. He is descended from a long line of eminent physicians, the
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family having furnished some of the most dis- tinguished medical men of that State. Dr. Parker L. Forwood, paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Sandy Hook, Harford county, Maryland, where he practiced medicine successfully during the greater part of his life, and became well known and very popular. His ancestors were natives of Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, where the family first settled in colonial times. Dr. Parker L. Forwood married Rebecca Smith- son, of York county, Pennsylvania, and a de- scendant of James Smithson, who founded the Smithsonian institute at Washington, District of Columbia, and by that union had a family of eight children, all sons : Walter H., Parker L., Dr. Henry, William S., Lawrence F., Thomas G., Hannah Ramsey, and one that died in infancy. Their fourth son, William S. Forwood (father), was born at Sandy Hook in 1833, educated in the public schools, and after attaining manhood engaged in agricultural pursuits, which he conducted successfully and accumulated considerable property. He is a democrat in politics and became so prominent that in 1871 he was elected sheriff of Harford county, and acceptably discharged the duties of that important office for one full term. In religion he is a member of the Society of Friends, and takes an active part in support- ing Quaker interests in Harford county, where he still resides, being now in the fifty-first year of his age. He married Rebecca Glenn, a na- tive of Fawn township, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Major John Glenn. To theni was born a family of seven children : Thomas G., William S., jr., a lawyer by profession and now clerk of the courts of Harford county ; Charles C., Dr. Francis F., Lillian, Priscilla and Mary.
Francis F. Forwood was educated at the Belaire academy in Harford county, Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins university, at which latter institution he spent three years, being graduated therefrom with the class of 1888. Having determined on medicine as his pro-
fession he then entered the medical depart- ment of the university of Maryland, where he took the full course, and was duly graduated from that department in April, 1891, with the degree of M. D. He has paid special atten- tion to surgery, and is one of the best quali- fied surgeons of eastern Pennsylvania, having taken a post graduate course at the Johns Hopkins university hospital, where he re- mained until 1892. In that year he became associated with the hospital at Chester, Dela- ware county, Pennsylvania, as resident physi- cian, and is now physician in charge of this well known institution, for a sketch of which see the historical part of this volume in that portion devoted to the city of Chester. Dr. Forwood is a member of the Delaware County Medical society, and is now president of the board of pension examiners of this county.
Politically Dr. Francis F. Forwood is an ardent democrat, and has been actively iden- tified with his party for a number of years. In his practice he has met with great success and fully demonstrated the value of the careful pre- paration he made for the practice of his chosen profession. Inheriting many of the leading characteristics of the ideal physician, Dr. For- wood secured the best training afforded by modern institutions of learning, and acquired the most approved methods known to the masters of medical science in this country, and thus fully equipped himself for that career of usefulness and conspicuous success upon which he has entered, and which appears des- tined to lead him into even greater eminence than was attained by his honored ancestors in the same profession. Dr. Forwood is unmar- ried.
JOSEPH MeALDON, a well known merchant and active business man of Chester city, is a son of John and Susan ( Wikinson) McAldon, and was born at Man- chester, England, January 14, 1840. His paternal grandfather, John McAldon, sr., was
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a native of Ireland and a farmer by occupa- tion. He married and reared a family of ten children, of whom four are living : Joseph, Margaret Walker, John and Agnes Walker. John McAldon (father) came to Chester city in 1871, and lived in the house next to the present residence of his son, the subject of this sketch. John McAldon was a loom boss by occupation. He was a republican and a Presbyterian, and died when in the sev- enty-eighth year of his age. He married Susan Wilkinson. Their children were: Hugh, Robert, Thomas, Joseph, William, Mary A. Ingram, and John McGonigle.
Joseph McAldon received his education in the schools of Manchester, England, and learned the trade of weaver. He came to Chester where, in 1871, he abandoned his trade and establisned his present large grocery house at the corner of Sixth and Kerlin streets. Mr. McAldon wedded Elizabeth Copley, and to their union has been born three children, two sons and one daughter : John W., Hugh G., and Ruth.
Joseph McAldon conducts a very large gro- cery and produce business, and has built up an extensive and remunerative patronage in Chester city. He handles complete and well assorted lines of all goods to be found in a first-class grocery house. He carefully looks after the wants of his numerous patrons, and leaves nothing undone to secure any grocery goods they may desire. In politics Mr. Mc- Aldon is a republican. He served two years as city assessor, and represented the old South ward in the council. He has been for a num- ber of years a member of the city and county republican committees. Mr. McAldon is the president of the board of trustees of the Meth- odist Episcopal church, of which he has been a member for several years. He is also a promi- nent member of the Masonic fraternity, hold- ing membership in L. H. Scott Lodge, No. 352, Free and Accepted Masons, and Chester Chapter, No. 258, Royal Arch Masons. As a business man Mr. McAldon has the confidence
of the public, and at the present time is the disbursing agent in the construction of the Chester city postoffice building, which is being erected at the corner of Fifth and Welsh streets.
JACOB FULMER, who is now suc- cessfully engaged in butchering and in the livery business, is a son of Mahlon and Anna (Trauger) Fulmer, and was born at Erwinna, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1861. He was reared in his native county, received a good common school education, and then learned the trade of butcher, which he followed for about seven months at Er- winna. He then went to Philadelphia, and was successively employed in butchering there, and at Atlantic City, and until 1885. In that year he came to Chester city, where he was in the employ of the Great Western Beef Com - pany and its successor, the Standard Beef Company, for four years. At the end of that time, in 1888, he formed a partnership with Thomas Mitchel, and engaged in the butcher- ing business. On January 18, 1889, he pur- chased his partner's interest, and has contin- ued the business most successfully ever since, at 527 Market street, where he and Mr. Mitchel opened out in 1888. Mr. Fulmer does a large butchering business, and has a first class and remunerative patronage. Not finding the butchering business sufficient to take all of his time, he embarked, on April 1, 1890, in a livery and boarding stable enterprise with R. E. Ross, at 114 East Fifth street. On April 26, 1892, lie sold his interest to Mr. Ross, and on the same day purchased the livery and sale stable of R. L. Roberts, at 517 Market street, which he aud John T. Hannum have been running ever since, under the firm name of Fulmer & Hannum. They do the largest sales business in their line in the city, shipping as many as one hundred and fifty horses in a sea- son. He has owned a number of good horses, among which were Civilian, of 2 : 26 time, and
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Long Taw, making the mile in two minutes and twenty-three seconds.
In politics Mr. Fulmer is an old- time demo- crat, and when, at the solicitation of friends, he ran for councilman in the Third ward, al- though his party was greatly in the minority there, yet was only defeated by a small ma- jority. He is pleasant and congenial, and has a wide circle of friends.
Jacob Fulmer, the paternal grandfather of Jacob Fulmer, was a native of Tinicum township, Bucks county, where his ancestors had resided for two or three generations. He was a farmer, a democrat and a member of the German Reformed church. He died in 1881, at ninety-eight years of age. He reared a family of six children, five sons and one daugh- ter : Frank, Edmund, Jonathan, Jesse, Mahlon, are the sons. Mahlon Fulmer (father) was a blacksmith by trade, but in middle life en- gaged in butchering, which he afterward fol- lowed for an occupation. He was a democrat, served his township for thirteen years as con- stable, and was defeated for sheriff of Bucks county by a very small majority when the opposing party was largely in the ascendency. Mahlon Fulmer died July 31, 1881, at fifty- four years of age. He married Anna Trauger. They had six children, two sons and four danghters : Emma Kohl, Violet Haney, Jen- nie Yost, Maud Engle, Jacob and Edmund.
M AJOR FRANK G. SWEENEY, C.
E., junior member of the well known real estate, insurance, and mortgage brokerage firm of Cochran & Sweeney, of the city of Chester ; vice president of the Chester Electric Light & Power Company, and inspector of the First brigade of the National Guards of Pennsyl- vania, is a son of Prof. John R. and Lizzie A. ( Gould ) Sweeney, and a native of West Ches- ter, Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he was born August 17, 1859. The Sweeneys are descended from a well known Scotch-Irish family, and have been residents of southeast- 26a
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