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George Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1829-1835
A former school teacher and U. S. Congressman,... |
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Thomas J. Foster, Founder of the World Schoolhouse, the International Correspondence Schools, 1905.
Thomas Foster had a knack for the practical... |
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Rev. William Tennent, Jr., attributed to John Smibert, formally attributed to Gustavus Hesselius, circa 1750.
Irish-born and Edinburgh-educated, William... |
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Gilbert Tennent, by Jacob Eichholtz, after Gustavus Hesselius, circa 1760.
A son of William Tennent, the founder of... |
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Pennsylvania Superintendent of Public Instruction James Pyle Wickersham, circa 1870.
Nineteenth-century Pennsylvania's most influential... |
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Thomas Henry Burrowes, 4th President of Pennsylvania State University, helped found Pennsylvania's first state normal school.
"Burrowes was well known throughout Pennsylvania,... |
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Reverend Charles Nisbet, the first president of Dickinson College.
A Scots Presbyterian who epitomized the enlightened... |
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William Edward Burghardt DuBois, by Laura Wheeler Waring,
William Edward Burghardt DuBois, by Laura... |
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Joseph Priestley, by Rembrandt Peale, circa 1801.
After fleeing England for the safety of Pennsylvania... |
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Bryn Mawr College president Martha Carey Thomas, circa 1895.
A staunch feminist from a progressive Quaker... |
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Celebrated faculty of Philadelphia's Institute for Colored Youth, 1850s-1890s.
In the 1800s, the ICY had one of the most... |
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John Dickinson, by Charles Willson Peale from life, 1782 - 1783.
Even though John Dickinson was born in Maryland... |
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Portrait of Father Augustine Smith, born Demetrius Gallitzin
Born into one of Russia's oldest and... |
