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In July 2013, shortly after Attorney General Kathleen Kane declined to defend Pennsylvania's prohibition of same-sex marriage in U.S. district court, [50] D. Bruce Hanes, the Montgomery County Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans' Court, announced he would issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. He interpreted his Orphans' Court's ...
The Daily Local News is a daily newspaper based in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The newspaper covers Chester County news and provides limited coverage of neighboring Lancaster and Delaware counties. It covers local and national news, sports, culture, and entertainment. The paper published its first issue in West Chester on November 19, 1872.
[44] He was the only son of Daisy and Dr. Roy Barber, considered two of the best-known people in West Chester according to a 1908 West Chester Daily Local News article. [45] Samuel Barber began composing songs at the age of six and was recognized as a musical prodigy. [ 46 ]
Pennhurst State School and Hospital. / 40.193717; -75.560162. Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was a state-run institution for mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania located in Spring City. [ 4]
York County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 456,438. [1] Its county seat is York. [2] The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either after the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and county of York in England.
Website. west-chester .com. West Chester is a borough and the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. [ 5] Located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the borough had a population of 18,461 at the 2010 census. [ 6] West Chester is the mailing address for most of its neighboring townships.
Children. 9. John Hannum III (1744 – February 2, 1799), also known as Col. John Hannum was a politician, businessman and colonial militiaman in Chester County, Pennsylvania influential in the establishment of West Chester, Pennsylvania as the county seat. His grandfather was an early settler in Pennsylvania, perhaps immigrating as early as 1682.
The Chester County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in the county seat of West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1846 at a cost of $55,346 and was designed by Thomas U. Walter. Walter also designed the dome of the United States Capitol. An addition, designed by T. Roney Williamson and constructed from ...