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5 unusual facts about Meadville


Amy Palmiero-Winters

Palmiero-Winters was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and competed in track and distance running from a young age.

George Washington Hosmer

While president of Antioch, he was also non-resident professor of divinity in the Unitarian theological school at Meadville, Pennsylvania.

John Charles Fields

Fields taught for two years at Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Les Whitt

Survivors included his wife of thirty-four years, Lee Ann Whitt, the educational curator of the zoo who is originally from Meadville in Franklin County in southwestern Mississippi; two daughters, Sarah Mathews, later Sarah Salley, and Hanna Lee Whitt, all of Alexandria, and two brothers, James M. Whitt of Natchez and John V. Whitt, Jr., of Dauphin Island, Alabama.

Robert D. Robbins

Despite the district's conservative character, Robbins faced a strong challenge from businessmen and Meadville city Councilman Charles W. Flynn, who hoped to ride the coattails of popular Governor Bob Casey to victory.


Baldwin-Reynolds House

Katherine was an active member of the American Red Cross and a founding member of the Meadville Garden Club.

Donald Camp

Donald E. Camp (born 1940 in Meadville, Pennsylvania) is an American artist, photographer, and professor of photography at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Donna Ladd

In July 2005, Donna Ladd and photographer Kate Medley joined Thomas Moore and Canadian Broadcasting filmmaker David Ridgen in a trip to Moore's hometown of Meadville, Mississippi.

Mount Darling

It was discovered on aerial flights from the West Base of the United States Antarctic Service in 1940, and named for Professor Chester A. Darling of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Patrick Farrelly

Farrelly was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, and was reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served until his death in Meadville in 1826.

WCRF-FM

WCRF-FM extends its signal by using two translators, each of which is separately owned, and four full-power repeaters: W210AR/Cochranton (89.9 FM), W221AR/Coshocton (92.1 FM), WVME/Meadville (91.9 FM), WVML/Millersburg (90.5 FM), WVMN/New Castle (90.1 FM), and WVMS/Sandusky (89.5 FM).

WREO-FM

Once boasted as the "Powerhouse of the North Coast", the station's 50,000-watt signal allows listeners to enjoy WREO (Mix 97.1) from London, Ontario; west to Cleveland, Ohio; all of Erie, Pennsylvania; east to Ripley, New York, south to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and all point in between.


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