Overview
Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 founding fathers (and mothers) responsible for the birth of the United States of America. This special volume includes those that lived, worked, and or died in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Included in this volume are biographies and grave information for 16 of these luminaries who made significant contributions to the Revolutionary cause. In this volume: Matthew Tilghman: Father of the Revolution in Maryland Abraham Baldwin: The Founder of the University of Georgia Edward Biddle: Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly Charles Carroll of Carrollton: The Catholic Signer Daniel Carroll: A Catholic Patriot Samuel Chase: First to be Impeached Elbridge Gerry: Founder of Gerrymandering John Hanson: President of the United States in Congress Assembled Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer: Elder Statesman Thomas Johnson: One of the Original Supremes John Paul Jones: ""I have not yet begun to fight!"" Edward Langworthy: An Orphaned Founder Thomas Lynch: South Carolina Son of Liberty James McHenry: Secretary of War William Paca: Master of Wye Thomas Stone: Pacificist Patriot Index
Full Product Details
Author: Lawrence Knorr ,
Joe Farrell ,
Joe Farley
Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.
Imprint: Sunbury Press, Inc.
Volume: 6
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.141kg
ISBN: 9798888192955
Pages: 98
Publication Date: 25 February 2025
Audience:
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
Lawrence Knorr has authored or co-authored over 20 books, mostly on history or biography. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Sons of the American Revolution, and numerous other historical organizations. He enjoys most writing about the formerly famous and his beloved Pennsylvania Dutch culture. He is a lifetime Penn State alum. Joe Farrell was born in Brooklyn and raised on the mean streets of Queens. He attended and graduated from Catholic schools in New York and went on to College at St. Vincent College where he graduated with a degree in Psychology. He studied Clinical Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Public Administration at Shippensburg. Joe Farley was born and raised in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. His high school graduating class from Hazleton Saint Gabriel's in 1970 was the last in the history of the school. At Saint Gabriel's Mr. Farley demonstrated his academic prowess by graduating 37th in his class of forty. He was the point guard on the school's 1970 state championship basketball team. Those exploits are covered in the book ""Trumpet Call to Victory: The Final Years of Hazleton Saint Gabriel's Basketball."" Mr. Farley then attended Bloomsburg University where after four dimly remembered years he graduated with a degree in education. In 1975 Mr. Farley began a 35-year public service career working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Upon his retirement in 2010, he began work on the Keystone Tombstone series with his coauthor Joe Farrell. To date, there are thirteen volumes in that series. Farley and Farrell have also authored Gotham Graves Volumes One and Two. Mr. Farley also penned ""Song Poems in Search of Music"" in 2014 He and his wife Sharon reside in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. They have three children.
