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Mark Cole Thomas McKean was born in 1734, the son of Irish immigrants. Like George Read, Thomas McKean was tutored by the Reverend Doctor Francis Allison in Latin, Greek, history, and moral philosophy...

Mark Cole George Read was born in 1734. Classically educated in Greek and Latin, first at home by his father, then under the guidance of the Reverend Doctor Francis Allison, Read began his study of th...

Mark Cole It was late June, 1776, Philadelphia. George Read and Thomas McKean represented Delaware in the Second Continental Congress where the resolution for independence, having been introduced earl...

Mark Cole The essential elements of the life of George Ross of Pennsylvania are by now very familiar to us, as his story is like so many in the founding era.  Without men like George Ross, our country...

Mark Cole From the time he was a member of the Second Continental Congress, through the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia that drafted the U.S. Constitution, through his service as an Associat...

Mark Cole James Smith was born in Ireland around 1713, and was brought to Pennsylvania while still a small boy. Early on, his father recognized his intellectual gifts, so it was arranged for Smith to ...

Mark Cole Orphaned before he was a year old, George Clymer was raised and apprenticed by his uncle in Philadelphia.  His uncle also died while Clymer was young, but he left a substantial inheritance w...

Mark Cole Early on, Francis Lightfoot Lee caught the spirit of his older brother, Richard Henry Lee.  Yet, while they both believed the same things, they were very different men.  Richard Henry was fl...