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Clarence K. Crossan
Clarence Kennedy Crossan (April 16, 1876 – September 25, 1960) was a Philadelphia Republican Party (United States), Republican politician who served for 28 years on the Philadelphia City Council. Crossan was born in Philadelphia's Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Fox Chase neighborhood in 1876, the son of Kennedy Crossan and Martha Ann Maxton. His father founded Crossan Construction Company, a firm that specialized in railroad work, and Crossan and his brother, Arthur Brook Crossan, Sr., followed their father into the business. He graduated from the Peirce College, Peirce School of Business in 1889 at the age of thirteen, then attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with an electrical engineering degree in 1898. He married Emma Jeanne Heacock the following year. He and his brother ran Crossan Construction from 1913 to 1932 when his brother died. Crossan was also involved in many community organizations around Northeast Philadelphia. He entered politics as a Republican Party ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
