Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-12-31
BNrSsUIAH pHI1ADEIpHrANs
Men from Delaware Who are Promi-
nent in R'enmsyIvania.

Correspondence fhliadelphla n ess.
From this land of luscious and juicy
peaches, hogs and hominy, and seductive
apple-jack, came Stephen Decatur, the
gallant American coniuudOre of other
days, whose bones lie in st. Peter Church
ward, at Third and Pine streets. About
SO years ago, in the little hamlet of Guam
tieo, on the eastern shore of Maryland, a
score of miles or so from the Delaware
line, the feeble wall of m infant was heard
in the house of the Methodist itinerant
preacher. That infant afterwards became
the city controller of Philadelphia, and
is now the governor of Pennsylvania
George Alfred Townsend, the newspaper
correspondent, was the son Of another
itinerant preacher native of Snow Hill,
and was born at Georgetown, Del.
When the Bedford Street Mission was
first organized by philanthropic citizens,
the Rev. John Dixon Long, an Eastern
Shore man, was placed at its head. That
part of the city was at that time q foul
blot upon the fame of Philadelphia--the
Matching place of crime, the home of
destitution and Bqualor. John Dixon
Long made his home among these people
and for years worked with unselfish zeal
1OI tIblf DOnlC JS1ilb uRO nc
retired with impaired health and is now
spending his declining days ut his native
home in Pocomoke City, Md.
Among other Philadelphians of promi-
nence whose birthplaces were upon the
Peninsula is Samuel p. Goodwin, presi-
dent of the Franklin Home for Inebriates,
native of Milford, Del. M. Hall, STAN
ton, formerly president of the Board of
Education, now gas trustee, and who
once upon time came within IL votes of
receiving the Republican nomination for
mayor, not many years ago, compara-
lively speaking, was clerk in Kent
county, DEL, store. Ex-Mayor Stokley,
who carried off the prize from Mr.. STAN
ton ON the occasion above referred to, is
himself, believe, from Delaware stock,
the family being represented in Charles
O. Stockley, the present governor of that
State. Our former mayor was, however,
born in this city and spells his name diff
ferent from the Delaware executive.
james II. Heverin, the we'll known law
yer, emigrated from Dover to this city.
Jacob Reed, founder of the we'll known
firm of Jacob Reeds Sons, and now re-
tired at green old age, halls from Berlin,
Worcester county, Md. Garrett Masten,
one of the Tower Hall clothing firm, re-
ceived his education ina Delaware country
store, where everything was sold from a
mackeref to plug hat. B. B. Oomegys,
the financier, is Blue Hens chicken and
brother of the present chief justice of
Delaware. The late Benjamin O. Temple,
long q leader of the city Democracy, came
from Templeville, on the line between
Maryland and Delaware, and studied law
in the office of Senator Salisbury, nj
Dover, Delaware; the late Henry May, for
many years president of the Vessel
Owners Association, was originally a
Milford boy, and Oscar Nj. Wilson, select
councilman from the Ninth ward, halls
from the same town, although born just
across the Delaware border in the Eastern
Shore county of Talbot. And, finally,
William +. Harrity, native Delawarean,
captures one of the best Philadelphia
offices in the gift of President Cleveland
that of postmaster.